Published by admin on Fri, 12/22/2023 - 11:01am
By John Andrews We’ve told plenty of Christmas stories in nearly 40 years of publishing South Dakota Magazine, but one of our favorites was written by Marian Cramer, of the Bryant/De Smet area. In the early years of the magazine, Cramer interviewed Hilda McKnight Bjordahl. She and her husband, Herschel McKnight, were hired as the first administrators of the Charles Mix County Home for the Poor near Academy in 1933. It was surely a setting for many sad stories, but one of her fondest memories was about a 14-year-old girl named Carol, and it truly epitomizes the Christmas spirit.
