New Podcast Posting: The World’s Only Corn Palace
So is described the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD.
Even if there might be others, this Corn Palace is nonetheless one of a kind.
Originally inspired in the late 1800’s by local real estate interests to encourage settlement on area lands, the Corn Palace was built to be an attraction. Original intentions have been fulfilled.
The present day Corn Palace (the third structure) is a multi-purpose exhibition hall topped with onion-shaped domes and covered with tens of thousands of dollars worth of oats, sorghum, barley, sudan grass, and, of course, corn.
Yellow corn, white corn, red corn, brown corn, splotchy corn, etc.
In this "Conversation on the Road" podcast, we speak with Marc Schilling of the Corn Palace about the place’s history and of its annual ritual of growing, harvesting and adapting fields of corn that are transformed into artistic murals.
At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com
Even if there might be others, this Corn Palace is nonetheless one of a kind.
Originally inspired in the late 1800’s by local real estate interests to encourage settlement on area lands, the Corn Palace was built to be an attraction. Original intentions have been fulfilled.
The present day Corn Palace (the third structure) is a multi-purpose exhibition hall topped with onion-shaped domes and covered with tens of thousands of dollars worth of oats, sorghum, barley, sudan grass, and, of course, corn.
Yellow corn, white corn, red corn, brown corn, splotchy corn, etc.
In this "Conversation on the Road" podcast, we speak with Marc Schilling of the Corn Palace about the place’s history and of its annual ritual of growing, harvesting and adapting fields of corn that are transformed into artistic murals.
At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com
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