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Weekend Trip to South Dakota (part one at the Corn Palace)

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A little mini vacation for my son and I while work called for my wife in both Sioux City, IA and Sioux Falls, SD. While my wife was working last Friday in Sioux Falls, my son and I took off for a road trip to the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD and a visit at my aunt & uncle's farm outside of Alexandria, SD. Here are some Corn Palace shots:

This year's Corn Palace theme is America's Destinations:









My son:

 
Went to the Corn Palace in June, what an earey :P place!
Naw, it was cool, I liked it. Went to Wall Drug, too.Been wanting to go the Corn Palace since I was a little kid. Saw it in one of my Dad's mid-1950's National Geographics. Been to alot of places before I ever went there via NatGeo.
 
sorry for the small pictures. Just click on the thumbnail for a larger image.

I still haven't figured out why we just cann't add photo's as attachments, much like uploading pictures to my Facebook page, adding pictures here is way too much work :roll:
 
Not as up on the history of Corn Palace as I should be, but basically the area is a huge producer of corn and other grains, so someone came up with the idea of decorating the exterior of a building with corn, grasses, grains, etc. grown locally. The interior is a gymnasium where basketball games are played and large gatherings including a fall music festival....polka bands, western music, etc.

The detail in some of the pictures 'painted' with the grains is amazing. I believe it is all drawn out on paper first. Not sure if the roofs of those parapets is grain, or something more durable now. There are problems with birds and other critters stealing the grains. Quite an attraction, at any rate.

The pictures will draw me by the building when I was intending we should stay on I-90 as we go by Mitchell later this month. Thanks for sharing them.

mrj
 
mrj said:
Not as up on the history of Corn Palace as I should be, but basically the area is a huge producer of corn and other grains, so someone came up with the idea of decorating the exterior of a building with corn, grasses, grains, etc. grown locally. The interior is a gymnasium where basketball games are played and large gatherings including a fall music festival....polka bands, western music, etc.

The detail in some of the pictures 'painted' with the grains is amazing. I believe it is all drawn out on paper first. Not sure if the roofs of those parapets is grain, or something more durable now. There are problems with birds and other critters stealing the grains. Quite an attraction, at any rate.

The pictures will draw me by the building when I was intending we should stay on I-90 as we go by Mitchell later this month. Thanks for sharing them.

mrj
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Pretty much nailed it. Like Wall Drug, the Corn Palace is nothing more than a tourist trap.

As I have family who live close by, I cann't count the number of times i've been to the Corn Palace, but for those who haven't been, it's one of those places to say that you've been to it along with buying the kids a Corn Palace t-shirt ;)
 

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