See the video and story about the Bender homestead barn, featuring Ed and Scott Bender. I'm getting updates on all the publicity from cousin Al Bender via his blog Barkplaintraveldog.blogspot.com.
As my prior entry says, the barn is now on the National Trust Register. That story was reported by the Mitchell Daily Republic.
For those who don't know, my mother Bernita is a Bender, one of thirteen children of Phillip and Christina Bender who settled on this farm just north of Fulton, SD, a little town east of Mitchell. The farm is still in the family, now owned by Scott Bender, grandson of Theodore, another of the thirteen.
We cousins all remember playing inside and around that now ninety-year-old barn back when it belonged to another of Phillip and Christina's sons Delbert Bender. I was a town kid who always enjoyed going out to the farms owned by the Benders.
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