BROOKINGS – The South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum will host the grand re-opening and ribbon cutting of its Ag-Xploration gallery at 3 p.m. Sunday.
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BROOKINGS – The South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum will host the grand re-opening and ribbon cutting of its Ag-Xploration gallery at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Cake, ice cream and refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.
“For the past few years, we have systematically remodeled the museum to make it ADA compliant. Our final project was installing a chairlift for our children’s gallery,” Agricultural Heritage Museum director Gwen McCausland said. “Coral Bonnemann, a longtime supporter of the museum, donated the funds for the chairlift. We cannot thank her enough for her generosity. This ribbon cutting is to celebrate having the Ag-Xploration gallery accessible to all visitors regardless of physical capabilities.”
The ribbon cutting will follow the “Successful Gardening on the Northern Prairie” book program with author Eric Bergeson.
Joseph J. Bonnemann and Coral (Coffey) Bonnemann are natives of Huron. Joe started college at SDSU and then spent time in the Army in the late 1940s before returning to school. After earning a B.S. degree in agronomy (now plant science) in 1951, Joe was employed at the USDA-ARS experiment station near Newell.
He returned to the SDSU campus in 1961 to supervise the Crop Performance Testing program. Joe retired in 1992. He also completed work for his M.S. in agronomy in 1964, a summer-school graduate of the first graduating class of “SDSU.” Joe died in 2014.
Coral Ellen Coffey Bonnemann earned a B.S. degree in medical technology from SDSU in 1953. She served on the board of directors of the Brookings Hospital and Brookview Manor, 1972-1989, including terms both as secretary and president. She was active in matters of hospital governance on the state and national levels for over 10 years during that time.
The Bonnemanns have three children.
The South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum’s mission is to inspire a passion for the diverse history, culture and science of agriculture in South Dakota. It is the official state museum for preserving the history of agriculture and rural life of South Dakota and a department of South Dakota State University. It is located in the historic Stock Judging Pavilion on the SDSU campus at 977 11th St., Brookings. The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. For more information, call 688-6226 or visit www.agmuseum.com.
