The Corn Palace - Mitchell, SD
This place is a real example of Americana at it's best. It plays a significant part in the history of South Dakota and is just a fun place to visit. Read their history here.
Where else can you practice driving a combine?
It takes 275,000 ears of specially grown corn to decorate this place! Each color is grown in a separate field just to ensure the color is right. In all, it takes 100 acres to grow the corn used here. But corn is not all they use.
These pictures show the murals for 2013 which were actually done last fall. The murals that are now being started are shown here
Where else can you practice driving a combine?
It takes 275,000 ears of specially grown corn to decorate this place! Each color is grown in a separate field just to ensure the color is right. In all, it takes 100 acres to grow the corn used here. But corn is not all they use.
The annual redecorating process has begun. Decorators started removing and replacing the dock and rye. The corn murals will remain intact until the annual Corn Palace Festival in August. Then, the new mural drawings will be placed on the Corn Palace. The process should be completed around mid-October.
These pictures show the murals for 2013 which were actually done last fall. The murals that are now being started are shown here
The Palace is redecorated each year with naturally colored corn and other grains and native grasses to make it “the agricultural show-place of the world”. We currently use 13 different colors or shades of corn to decorate the Corn Palace: red, brown, black, blue, white, orange, calico, yellow and now we have green corn! A different theme is chosen each year, and murals are designed to reflect that theme. Ear by ear the corn is nailed to the Corn Palace to create a scene. The decorating process usually starts in late May with the removal of the rye and dock. The corn murals are stripped at the end of August and the new ones are completed by the first of October.
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