A-Maize-ing

By Esq. -
Where: Mitchell, SD, which you would think is the middle of nowhere, and you would also be right.
When: mid-July 2018, Early Days of the Great Bach Vacation of 2018

You only have one life to live. And that life should, no, MUST include a visit to the grandest corn-themed architectural wonder of the Great Plains, that’s right, the Corn Palace.

As we made our way (at the highest possible speeds allowed by South Dakota law, the limits of Monkey House’s abilities and the rules of physics) across the pancake-esque landscape of South Dakota, we felt compelled to stop in Mitchell.

Where else in the United States can you see a building festooned from top to bottom with a corn-constructed mosaic? Nowhere else. And that’s why we stopped, we toured, we took it all in.

At the end of the day, if you haven’t seen the corn palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, you should ask yourself “am I actually living or am I just alive?”

The King and Queen in front of the Palace

We posed with corn.

We played on antique farm implements used for harvesting corn.

We made corny faces.


We ate corn products.

And just generally found ourselves in AWE of the capital of Corn-itecture.

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