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About Lisa Lillibridge/Dakota 1966

I grew up roaming and scavenging the plains of southern South Dakota. That childhood landscape instilled a desire for spaciousness that's stayed with me into adulthood. My work often reflects these themes.

last weekend on the high plainsā€¦

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ā€œThe Great Plains were immense enough to inspire the grandest, most foolish of dreamsā€”but they were also vast enough that no one could ever explore every corner.ā€
ā€•Ā Melanie Benjamin,Ā The Childrenā€™s Blizzard

PHOTOS:

  1. The farm where my mother and uncle grew upā€”Wakonda, South Dakota. The house is gone, but the barn and yard were so familiar to me. I still remember the sound of the screen door, and the radio on top of the fridge relaying the hourly farm reports on WNAX.
  2. Somewhere northeast of Burke, South Dakota last Saturday.
  3. Meckling, South Dakota (The Hay Capital of the World) & Tobyā€™s Lounge, home of their very famous and delicious broasted chicken. A joint I frequented as a kid with my Aunt Dorothy and Uncle Leonard.
  4. Leaving Burke last Monday.
  5. An abandoned car somewhere in Clay County.
  6. Heading downtownā€”Burke, South Dakota.
  7. A creek east of Burke.
  8. Somewhere west of Beresford.
  9. I love rainy road trips, I was listening to Zach Bryanā€™s, This Road I Knowā€”Iā€™m on this roadā€¦
    And I donā€™t know where I am, but I know exactly where I am

Hereā€™s to spring and road trips wherever you find yourself.

EARTH DAY 2024ā€¦

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When I was five in 1971 an ad aired frequently of a Native American man paddling aĀ canoe through a stream and crying as teenagers threw garbage out of a car window. The ad ran for years and made me sad. (See link below.)

In response to the crying man in the canoe, my friend Jon and I walked around town and picked up trash for fun. This made us feel like very good young citizens.

2024ā€™S EARTH DAY theme: PLANET V. PLASTICS

NOTE: Later, I learned that the companies behind Keep America Beautiful wanted to stop laws that would make them sell drinks in reusable bottles. This lobbying group wanted voters to look at the ad and think people made pollution one person at a time. Keep America Beautiful did not want people to think that big companies caused pollution. A practice that continues today.

ā€œThe great question of the Seventies isā€¦shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water.ā€

ā€”President Nixon from his first State of the Union address in 1970

    SOURCES & RESOURCES: 

    LINK TO KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AD:  https://youtu.be/h0sxwGlTLWw?feature=share

    https://www.nixonfoundation.org/

    https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/news/earth-day

    https://www.earthday.org/factsheets/

    https://earth911.com/inspire/earth-day-23-quotes/