Ken Bell’s Landmark Conversation Pieces on US HWY 212

Driving west on US HWY 212 just past Clark, where the Northeastern South Dakota wetlands begin to give way to drier expanses of grassland, look North, and you’ll see a matching fleet of red ’76 Ford LTD’s, parked in two tidy rows, like they’re waiting for a light to change. You’re catching a drive by glimpse of Ken Bell’s Landmark Conversation Pieces, one of those abstract interjections you’ll discover any time you make tracks across the Northern Plains. The Parade, as Bell calls the LTD procession, is where it all started… read more >