PHOTO OF THE DAY: NIGHT LIGHT - The Courier

This photo was posted Friday morning on Heritage Hall Museum & Archives’ Facebook page, along with the following expaination:

The bell tower at the Diamond Valley School – one of four historical buildings that are part of Heritage Hall Museum & Archives – is silhouetted as the Hunter’s Moon rises in the evening eastern sky. The full Moon officially rose Tuesday morning at 8:26 a.m. CDT and has appeared to be full through Friday morning.

The earliest written use of the term “Hunter’s Moon” came in the 1710 Oxford English Dictionary. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the Hunter’s Moon is the first full Moon after the Harvest Moon (in September this year) and the closest full Moon to the autumn equinox. “This is the time when the game is fattening up for winter and provisions are needed for the long, cold months ahead, thus the name.”

The Diamond Valley School (District 56) stood on the west side of Highway 81 two miles south of Freeman. It was moved to Freeman after it closed in 1969 after serving students since 1896. It was renovated as a lasting legacy project during the South Dakota Centennial in 1989.

You can visit the school as part of your tour of our museum; we’re open weekday afternoons from noon to 4.