As is always the case, opening weekend brought back so many memories of my younger years in the pheasant fields of Lyman County, South Dakota. Those times of so long ago, began on the land upon which we grew up, some 8 miles northeast of Reliance, South Dakota, and specifically a little 13 acre patch of ground adjacent to Mother’s garden. In my later years, for many years, those memories involve the Bill and Bertha McManus farm, located a few miles west of Reliance.
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