Ann Haber Stanton moved to South Dakota from New York City in 1959 and loves living in the green Black Hills. Rapid City was a great place to raise her three sons, David, Joshua, and Daniel. In 2001, she participated in Leadership Rapid City, a program designed to groom community leaders. LRC was the springboard for designing Founders Park Plaza, an outdoor history lesson about the birth of her adopted hometown. Ann is a longtime member of the Synagogue of the Hills, the only synagogue serving the Jewish community for 350 miles in any direction. She began to research the history of the Black Hills' Jewish population in 1991. Impressed at how profoundly Jewish pioneers had been involved in settling and developing the Black Hills and surrounding communities, she was disappointed to learn how little was written about that unique Jewish experience. She has been researching, writing, and giving talks on this subject since 1992.
