You run into old friends in the most unusual places

By Gordon Garnos

EXPLANATION: More than one column by yours truly have been written about the uniqueness of South Dakotans. For example, in my column for the week of Sept. 17, I mentioned "Sparky" Anderson of baseball fame, one of this year's inductees into the South Dakota Hall of Fame. He declared, "No matter where you might move to, once a South Dakotan, always a South Dakotan." Another example of this uniqueness just happened during a meeting of the Dakota Territory Chapter of the American Political Items Collectors in Watertown. I ran into a childhood friend. (Full Article)