Back in the days of the Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the Weather Underground and dozens of causes for the socially misfit and downtrodden, the 1960s and early 1970s stand alone as a rallying point which nearly ignited a modern day total rebellion within the U. S. Slogans were “Question Authority,” “Make Love, Not War,” “Tune in and Drop Out” and “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30.” Those are the printable ones.

Imagine someone taking a chunk of ancient Rome, with a splash of science fiction and a coming of age story and tossing it into a bag with 124 blank pages in it. After shaking the bag to and fro the handler opens the bag up and hands you  a completed novel. In a sense, that is what Custer graduate Cody Deatherage did upon writing his first book, “Tides of Fate: The Legendary Aroden:Book 1 Vindication.” 

One girl’s middle school dream became a reality last month when she twisted her way into the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, set for this February. Lacy Schnoor, Draper, Utah, earned her spot on the American aerial skiing team after landing a triple-twisting jump in Olympic Trials in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Schnoor said she had a 50-50 chance of landing it since she practiced the jump on the snow for the first time the day before the event.

Some family research on the South Dakota State Archives website led Paula Schaeper of Dallas, Texas, to the Custer County Chronicle, and more specifically, “Down Memory Lane.”