Monthly Archives: October 2014

Movie theatre

Going to the movies in Britton is a weekend-only affair. There’s a tiny, old school cinema on the main drag, called The Strand. It’s open  Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights and shows one movie per weekend. Show titles are changed by hand. Movies are sponsored by local businesses, and new releases are only possibilities (until they’re sponsored, I assume). To someone whose understanding…More

Grain

Britton is a small farming town in South Dakota. If the vast tracts of crop fields leading you into town didn’t already give it away, the grain elevator presiding over its center, just might. Large swathes of the Dakotas and surrounding states in both USA and Canada were settled by Scandinavians during the late 19th century. It is…More