VOLGA – The South Dakota Horse Council is working with the Brookings County Museum to establish a Horse Person of the Year Hall of Fame in the museum’s new Horse-Drawn Museum in Volga.
“We’re very pleased to be working with leaders of the state’s horse industry on this very appropriate project,” said Phil Wagner of Brookings, president of the Brookings County Museum complex in Volga.
“Having the Hall of Fame in the state’s only museum specifically dedicated to the horse is the perfect place for recognizing persons who have distinguished themselves and dedicated their lives to the horse industry in South Dakota,” he said.
Brandon Kinney of Sioux Falls, president of the South Dakota Horse Council, said that since 1981 the council has selected a South Dakota Horse Person of the Year.
“We’re pleased that now those men and women, and future honorees, will be appropriately recognized in this new Hall of Fame that will become a permanent part of the Trygve A. Trooien Horse-Drawn Museum,” he said.
Mike Olson of rural White was the 2018 South Dakota Horse Person of the Year.
