When Tom Unterseher and Heather Bohr moved from Pasadena to Mobridge in 1994, they imagined a short stay. It was a cost saving relocation to reduce their overhead while they worked to make their publishing business successful. When the World Wide Web suddenly became popular over the next several years, their business was transformed. They gave up publishing in [...]

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Throughout history writers and artists have retreated to the countryside to think and work. Maybe they have always been New Pioneers. The age of the Internet makes it easier. Yesterday I drove to Howes Corner at the intersection of highways 34 and 73 in western South Dakota to interview writer and teacher Joan Wink. Joan [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Most New Pioneers have a divided identity. Tonight, after landing at San Francisco International Airport, I rented a car and drove north. Coming round the northbound turn on 101, the skyline of the illuminated city bloomed out of the night. Memories of childhood and the years we spent on the oceanside of the [...]

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