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John Fulcher`s Place

Photos of America

Mitchell Corn Palace

The original , called "The Corn Belt Exposition" was established in 1892. Early settlers displayed the fruits of their harvest on the building exterior in order to prove the fertility of South Dakota soil. Present building dates from 1921  The exterior decorations are completely stripped down and new murals are created each year.Each ear is skillfully sliced in half lengthwise with a powersaw, trimmed if necessary with a hand axe and carefully nailed in place, according to large corn-by-number drawings tacked up on tar paper. They are arranged to make murals: largely Americana scenes like pastoral fantasias, wagon trains on the move, Amerindians at sunset, that sort of thing.White, red, brown, yellow, blue, speckled, and splotchy corn is used.

Grand Canyon

At 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and nearly 1 mile deep, it is widely proclaimed one of the wonders of the natural world. After thousands of years of Native American presence in the American Southwest, the first Europeans arrived at the Grand Canyon's South Rim in 1540. Following another 300 years of missionaries, trappers, explorers, government surveyors and soldiers, Major John Wesley Powell and his party of nine made the first successful boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869. Grand Canyon became a national monument in 1908 and on February 26, 1919, it was designated as the seventeenth national park