In Mitchell, SD, we visited the Corn Palace - this theatr and concert venue that is decorated with murals and wall coverings made exclusively of corn ( the big local crop) and changed annually since the 1920s. We arrived also in time for the Corn Fair, the annual celebration down the Main Street of Mitchell. In some ways it was like being transported back to the America John remembers from the 1950s ... Complete with theDweebs performing music. In other ways it was sad because it seemed to us that the people in the streets - mostly scruffy young people and older people who looked like they worked the land - were missing something; perhaps just getting by. Hard to pinpoint. We'll talk more about this.
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