Diversity Around Us...

Rapid City is a fickle community. Sure lines are drawn between what people support and what they don't. Rapid City tries, and fails, to be a community with the different collective ideas. They neither have the smarts to try something different or are just too ignorant .

Take the Journey Museum. If you have never toured it, you are missing something. Since it's opening, The Journey has had a hard time with support from the community. They say location is one problem. I think they are blowing smoke up our proverbial asses. The location is on the edge of North Rapid. North Rapid consists of middle and lower income housing. If this were true then the Civic Center, the massive Holiday Inn would be seeing similar attendance problems.

The Journey, in conjunction with the South Dakota School of Mines, has exhibits about the geologic and early people of the region. Yes, it's no Museum of Natural History like they have in Denver but it could be similar. The people who created the Journey didn't see the big picture when they designed it. It could be much more and with additions could bring people in.

One big exhibit that would be a financial help would be an IMAX theater. The Journey instead has a movie theater type deal with a documentary film showing the history of South Dakota. Boring... An IMAX would bring locals in to see some cool shit. Revenue man!!! You can't get people to want to come back with a boring film about South Dakota.

Rapid City tries to get you to think it's a small metropolitan with the feel of a major city with all the amenities but falls way short. Take the Dahl Fine Arts Center. Fine Arts... not so. Amatuer arts yes. School play quality entertainment. Yet they get all the support in the world.

I plan on writing the Journey to hear what they have to say and if they have had considered an IMAX. I'll let you know what I find out.

By the way, The lyrics in the previous post were by the band Queensryche.

Eric