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a Northwest Regional Emmy Award . A showing of the documentary will take place April 29 at the Sioux Falls State Theatre , which is also sponsored by the foundation.
The Badger Clark Foundation was the lead donor to South Dakota’s Public Broadcasting’s production of Poet Among the Pines , the Badger Clark documentary that was nominated for
Clark’s first collection of poems, Sun and Saddle Leather , has always been influential to Brooks and the entire Christenson family. “Brooks knew about Badger Clark from a young age,” recalled KrisAnne. “He heard his dad periodically reciting Badger’s poetry from Sun and Saddle growing up.” According to KrisAnne, one of Bob’s first assignments in his freshman English class was to search for an author at the I.D. Weeks Library at USD. He found Sun and Saddle Leather on the shelf and “was hooked ever since.” Badger Beer is available at XIX Brewing Company on tap or can be purchased in bottles. The label is Brooks’s original design collaboration with Shon Roti of 9th Street Design in Sioux Falls. The Christensons hope to continue to carry on Brooks’s legacy by growing the beer’s distribution statewide, having a portion of proceeds benefitting the Badger Clark Foundation. But until then, MarieClaire says they are blessed to have a Vermillion brewery leading the charge. “As Dean Fulton has said, USD is home,” she said. “We are happy to have Brooks’s beer being served at ‘home.’”
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