Spotlight on Lesser Known History
Field of Dreams Movie Site

For someone who considers the 1989 movie one of his two favorite movies, there may be some bias here. However, whatever bias you may read, might just fly out the car window as you wind past the corn and into the farm movie site known from the film forward as Field of Dreams. Yes, there are changes, no real past players come out of the corn after character Ray Kinsela built the field, but plenty of visitors do. Up to one hundred thousand come to the site each year.

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Historic Site of the Month
Mount Rushmore

It was meant by civic leaders as an inducement for tourists to come to the Black Hills of South Dakota, and that sure has happened, over two million visitors per year. However, what was at first going to be a monument to western heros at a more southern location in the Black Hills, was changed when sculptor Gutzon Borglum came aboard. He said a northern site, then known as Six Grandfathers, had better rock, granite, and the topic of the three greatest presidents would draw a lot more folks. Political leaders agreed, both locally, Doane Robinson and Peter Norbeck for two, and nationally. President Coolidge would arrive to dedicate its construction in 1927.

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