FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Dec. 2, 2005

CONTACT:  Jeff Mammenga, (605) 773-6000

Trains, high school sports, quilts to be displayed

PIERRE, SD – A popular model train display from Milbank, high school sports memorabilia, and quilts will be on display this weekend at the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center and the Visitor Center by Capitol Lake.

High school sports memorabilia from the South Dakota High School Activities will be displayed Saturday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Cultural Heritage Center, 900 Governors Drive. The SDHSAA will be bringing programs and results from their archives of state events and yearbooks from as far back as 1905. They’ll also have records and CDs from all-state chorus from the 1970s, some medals and trophies, and copies of state records in football, and boys and girls basketball and track as compiled by the Rapid City Journal.

On Sunday, Ann Douglas and Joan Anderson will have quilts on display from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Marlin Fenner of Milbank will have his model trains, and the Pierre Stately Stitchers will display quilts at the Visitor Center on Saturday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.          

Fenner, who has built the buildings and scenes within his town, will have a 16-by-16-foot H-scale train plus an 8-by-10-foot Christmas train in G-scale on display.

The Stately Stitchers promote the art of quilting throughout the community. They offer classes and lectures, and make and donate items to local charitable organizations.

The annual Pie Day, hosted by Attorney Gen. Larry Long, is Saturday, Dec. 3, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on the first floor of the capitol.

Special displays will continue at the CHC and Visitor Center through Sunday, Dec. 18. The CHC will be open extended hours – 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturdays and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sundays – to accommodate the holiday displays. The Visitor Center has the same hours.

The remaining schedule of events at the CHC is as follows:  Dec. 10-11 – quilts and crafts by Renee Wald and Jeanie Hartman; Dec. 17 – postage stamps by Marv Paulson, Germans from Russia exhibit by Del Paulson and quilts by Ann Sines; Dec. 18 – the Paulsons return.

Remaining events planned for the Visitor Center include:  Dec. 10 – Mary Todd’s stained glass creations, the artwork of Janet Judson and Virginia Barnes, and the Sioux Falls Lionel Train Club; Dec. 11 – Mary Todd and the Sioux Falls trains return, plus a cross-stitch display by Mary Livermont; Dec. 17 – custom cross-stitching by Betsey DeLoache, and Annette Hinker’s glass images; Dec. 18 – Hinker’s glass images.

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