Traveling Smithsonian exhibit continues journey across South Dakota

“Crossroads: Modifications in Rural America” is a touring Smithsonian exhibit making its method throughout the state. Proper now, you’ll find it within the Sturgis Public Library.

The touring exhibit is a part of the Smithsonian’s “museum on predominant road” sequence.

Chris Hahn is the Sturgis Library director. He mentioned the exhibit is designed to lift questions on rural life.

“It talks about what’s rural America, and the way has it modified, what course is it going, and it’s all about folks’s connection to rural life, the land, group,” Hahn mentioned. “It asks lots of questions – that’s kinda what I’ve seen as you have a look at issues – it asks you to replicate in your relationship with rural life.”

Hahn mentioned it’s a celebration of what makes rural life particular.

“It’s constructed on this concept what we handle ourselves, and we work off the land and we don’t have all of the creature comforts and that’s okay,” Hahn mentioned. “I perceive that – I feel we now have much more in widespread than folks suppose. With out changing into a downer, you see the identical points wherever you’re, proper?”

However there’s additionally an area angle to the exhibit.

“One of many expectations is in reality ‘we’re bringing it to your city, what are you going to do to indicate your native taste as a part of this total exhibit.’ So, we now have a ton of occasions occurring, and it’s right here by the top of April,” Hahn mentioned.

To this point, Crossroads traveled to Brookings and Yankton earlier than arriving in Sturgis, and subsequent goes to Fort Sisseton in Might.