History

10 Questions for Galen…

Lehman’s President Galen Lehman celebrates a milestone birthday this month (April 12th to be exact). We’re not saying which milestone, but we will say the number is an even one and begins with a ‘5’ (ahem). All kidding aside, Galen graciously answered the following 10 questions for us…

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winter snow days

The Long Winter

Western South Dakota had a long winter in 1986 – 1987. That was the year it started snowing in October and didn’t stop snowing until mid-April. That was the year that my 80+year-old father-in-law said “I’ve never seen this much snow in my life!”

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Roll hay in the fields of Central Indiana.

Uncle John and the Hay Wagon

There are things we don’t identify as stupid until after we’ve done them. We blindly act with no idea that disaster is approaching us at warp speed. I learned this on a humid, mid-August day in 1946.

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Food from the beginning

Mom was born a few years before the Great Depression. Grandma, a widow, raised nine kids on a farm by herself. She didn’t

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