Curt Jones loved history as a collection of great stories that can be told and retold, as a book of lessons to be learned, and above all as an experience that can be kept only by giving it to others. As a good neighbor, concerned citizen, and chairman of the Governor's historic Fort Sisseton Commission, he forcefully championed the fort's restoration, promotion, and transformation into one of the finest family vacation sites in the region. Visitors who leave the old fort with a better understanding and appreciation of South Dakota's past follow in Curt Jones' footsteps, and those who, because of this historic place, have a clearer and broader vision of South Dakota's future stand upon his shoulders.