July 16 & 17 – 2010 at Pierpont Lake.
No Dogs, Guns or Attitudes! Must be 21.
Live Music and Talent Show both nights
Poker Run (Group) Sat – Noon starting on Main St in Pierpont
Breakfast being served at the stone building on Main St in Pierpont from 7:oo A.M. – 10:30 A.M Sat & Sun
Biker games, Burnout box, Vendors & More
Advanced tickets $30.00 includes Camping & Beer!! Tickets available at Mr. Bills or Pierpont Service in Pierpont.
Not responsible for lost, damaged or stolen items. Contact us for more details or general questions.
Join us for our 4th of July celebration.
1-4 P.M. 1st Annual Rodney Schmig Memorial Car Show at Pierpont Park.
3:00 P.M. Lawn Mower Poker Run starting in Pierpont Park. $5.oo entry fee, 50/50 pot (all bikes, golf carts, etc. welcome)
4:30 P.M. Parade on Main Street
6:30 P.M. Hog Roast & Pot Luck
8:00 P.M. Lawn Mower Races & Toilet Bowl Races in Pierpont Park
10:00 P.M. Fireworks
Inflatables all day – $5.00 per child
Please contact us for car show details, parade entries and other details.
Homer Cemetery Assn.
PO Box 242
Langford, SD 57454
Our Quasquicentennial anniversary celebration is July 6,7,8th in 2012. Organizers are requesting artistic submissions for our anniversary logo.
The logo will be used on souvenirs, apparel and promotions for Pierpont’s 125th anniversary. The designs should be submitted on a white 8 ½ by 11-inch sheet of paper. There are no requirements on style of the logo. Designs may include pencil drawings, graphic art or other media. A $100 cash prize will be awarded to the selected winner. The designs should be submitted by October 1st of this year to: Town of Pierpont Logo Contest. PO Box 192, Pierpont, SD 57468
You may well ask …
It’s four miles south and seventeen miles east of Putney, SD!
That proud claim is boldly printed on our Quasquicentennial T-Shirts, which can be purchased from Nsho-Tshi’s Trading Post.
Of course one begs to ask where in the world is Putney?
Perhaps the good people of Putney, SD may give you similar directions to their small town in relation to ours.
So how does one get to Pierpont, SD?
It’s really simple, just click here! and follow the directions to our small South Dakota Prairie town.
Please submit your favorite recipe for our Pierpont Quasquicentennial Cookbook.
Quasquicentennial? What kind of word monstrocity is this? Where did it come from and who coined it? Well, here is a short history …
Robert L. Chapman of Baldwin, New York, wrote …
During the first week of August in 1961, Frank & Wagnalls received a letter from Frank W. Hattan of Delavan, Illinois, requesting “suggestions or criticism” concerning two words which had been coined to mean ’125th aniversary’. The words were ‘cenquadtennial’ and ‘centquartennial’. Delavan, a town with a population of about 1600 would be celebrating its 125th anniverary as “New Frontier Days” from August 30 through September 3, 1962.
It is our policy to reply as courteously and helpfully as we can to such requests, and I answered Mr. Hatten on August 7, suggesting ‘quasquicentennial’. …
For those of you interested to read the full story, follow this link … Read More …
Anyway, let us not digress. We are calling for Recipe Submissions for our 125th Anniversary Cookbook. So please, share your culinary skills and submit your recipies so that Pierpont’s residents and others can share in the taste of your most scrumptious gastronomic and epicurian creations.
Welcome to Pierpont SD. This is our official town website.