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Upcoming Special Annual Events
October 17 & October 18
6pm-8:30pm
Hear the haunting stories of 5 historic buildings in Yankton, SD. Two nights of Haunted History Tours 6pm-8:30pm each night! A map (emailed to you after purchasing your ticket) will guide you between five historic Yankton sites where a narrator will present the building history & its haunting stories. Non-member tickets are $25 & Member tickets cost $15 (two discounted tickets limit). Buy your ticket online at https://square.link/u/OsolcGEN
October 25-26
7pm-7am
Can you brave the night inside a haunted museum? The event includes a midnight tour of the historic 1909 Mead Building where you'll be taken to places off-limit to the public. The building was originally used as patient housing for women as part of the Yankton State Hospital operations. Staff will share their spooky stories; and the American Paranormal Investigative team and a tarot card reader will be joining us. Tickets are $50 and include snacks and morning breakfast. Participants must be 16 or older. Buy your ticket online https://square.link/u/Cbnwc4kq
Seeking Christmas tree decorators! Deadline is November 1st.
October 17 & 18, 2025
​Haunted Overnight: Saturday, Oct 25, 2025
Current Calendar of Events
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Friday, October 3rd
noon to 1pm
Feed Your Mind
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"Building a Brewery"
by Ben Hanten
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The first brewery in Dakota Territory was opened in Yankton in 1866 by German immigrant Charles F. Rossteuscher. Almost 160 years later, Ben Hanten, founder of Ben's Brewing Co., will share his experience of converting the historic Freeman Company building into a thriving, modern-day brewery.
Feed Your Minds are held on the first Friday of each month, and there is a free-will donation to attend. The one-hour event will be held on the second floor of the Mead Building, 82 Mickelson Dr in Yankton, SD.
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Saturday, October 4th
1:30pm
Author Book Signing
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"These Dakota Dreams"
by Loretta Sorensen
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Local author Loretta Sorensen will be in person at the Mead Museum on Saturday, October 4th starting at 1:30pm for a book signing of her new release "These Dakota Dreams".
The fiction book is based in the wake of the 1881 Dakota Territory’s “Great Flood,” where 17-year-old Keri Miller stands amid the wreckage of her shattered world. Her family’s homestead lies in ruins, swept away by the churning, muddy waters that ravaged the plains. Her father, her anchor, succumbs to a sudden heart attack, leaving her alone to face the foreclosure that strips away the last vestiges of their shared Dakota Dreams. The vast, windswept prairie, once alive with promise under endless skies, now feels like a hollow expanse, echoing her grief and doubt. Has her faith in God, once as steadfast as the Dakota sun, been swept away too? Yet, in the quiet resilience of the rebuilding town, a spark of hope flickers—Karl Richmond, the young, earnest preacher with a voice that carries both warmth and conviction. Can he guide Keri through the storm of her sorrow to uncover a new dream rising from the ashes of the old?
Books will be available for purchase.
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Friday October 17 and Saturday October 18
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Saturday/Sunday Otober 25-26
Mead Museum Haunted Overnight Experience
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Friday, November 7
noon to 1pm
Feed Your Mind
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"United States V. Sioux Nations of Indians Revisited: Justice, Reconciliation, and Land Return"
presented by Frank Pommersheim
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A 1980 Supreme Court ruled the US Government and whie settlers had repeatedly violated the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, which promised to set aside the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills, for the tribe's use and occupation. Pommersheim will expose the history of this court case, treaty violations and the perspectives of the Native American people.
Frank Pommersheim is a well-known teacher, scholar, Tribal Justice, and poet, who has more than 40 years of experience in the area of Indian Law and Policy.
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Friday, November 28- Dec 31
(closed Dec 25)
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