Michael Frank (FRONT) transported the bookmobile from Isabel to Timber Lake, where Marty and Scott Biegler and crew unloaded it. Troy Lindskov recently bought the vacant lot where it was sitting. He and his dad, Corey, helped load it onto Frank’s flatbed trailer. Photos by Kathy Nelson
Seeking bookmobile memories
The old South Dakota State Library Bookmobile that delivered books to town and rural schools in Dewey, Corson and Ziebach counties 50-60 years ago, had been sitting on a vacant lot in Isabel until it was recently moved to Timber Lake as a temporary exhibit of the Historical Society. It’s parked on the lots behind the Tribute to Rodeo sculpture and the Blacksmith Shop, where visitors can see it and…