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Inspired by my love of the Corn Palace.

Corn Palace Songs!

In my research about all things Corn Palace I've stumbled upon some songs!

Five of them!

1. Corn Palace - the Breakup Society






This may be my favorite of the songs. It's about a guy who lost a love and wishes he'd taken her to the Corn Palace when he had the chance.

It kinda reminds me of the music of Polaris/Miracle Legion, and that makes me happy.


2. Corn Palace - Smokin Joe Kubek Band

At least I think it's about the Corn Palace. It's bluesy and instrumental. And it's called "Corn Palace".

3. Corn Palace Heirs - Dutch Pink

This sounds like Tom Waits. Kinda.

I'm not sure if it's exactly about the Corn Palace, but Corn Palace is in the name. And it says "Corn Palace Heirs" in the lyrics.

It's growly.


4. New Corn Palace March - Karl L. King

This website says that King performed the New Corn Palace March at the Corn Palace on September 26, 1921 for... a celebration of the New Corn Palace?

That was probably a lot of fun!


5. Mighty Palace of Corn - sethifus

I round out the 5 with my song about the Corn Palace.

Why? Because I like my song.

And because I couldn't find a 5th song besides mine.

5 was a better number than 4.

Pics from Christmas Time! Domes! Uniforms! Etc!

I was back in Mitchell over Christmas time. I took some pictures, but never got around to posting them.

Here they are!

I thought it was interesting that the Daily Republic still has the old domes by their name.


My sisters-in-law told me that one of the old domes was still in town. My brother-in-law Ben and I drove around and found it!

Ben took a couple pictures of me with it.

It was even bigger than I thought it'd be!


We went to the Corn Palace and went inside to warm up.

I sat on a tractor.


If you go upstairs inside you can see a bunch of Oscar Howe's original sketches he used to plan many of the Corn Palace murals! It's neat!



A week or two ago I saw on facebook that there are going to be new DWU uniforms for their sports teams.

I took a screen shot of Matt Wilber's post on twitter.

They're going to have an MST3K-style Corn Palace silhouette on them!

Cool beans.

Corn Palace on a U-Haul!

I spotted this U-Haul trailer behind the stage at the Indy Irish Fest last week!

It's fun to find the Mighty Palace of Corn in unexpected places!

Domes, Graduation, and Floaty Pens!

This weekend I got to visit the Corn Palace for my sister-in-law's high school graduation!

They took the onion-shaped domes off of the top and built new ones.

They're not on the palace yet.

I understand why they're replacing the old domes, and I can see what they were going for with the new design, but I don't much care for the new domes.

They're cleaning up the inside, too.

The Corn-cession stand sells bottled water with a Corn Palace label.

My sister-in-law's graduation reception was at the Ramada Mitchell Conference Center. There was a drawing of all the local Mitchell businesses handing in the lobby and right in the middle was the Mighty Palace of Corn!

I also got to stop by the gift shop to buy some presents and a new floaty pen for myself!

If you know of any Corn Palace-related stuff I should know about, please let me know in the comment section below!

Corn, PALACE, PUZZLE!!!!!!

When I was at the Corn Palace gift shop last month I bought something.

It's a puzzle! Which you know if you read the title of this post.

My wife and I put a little over half of it together and then I spilled coffee all over it.

This made it much harder to finish the puzzle.

The pieces separated in half the long way. It changed the colors of the pieces it touched. The pieces also swelled a little so they didn't fit together very well.

We put it all together.

Then Princess Melawesome figured out that some of the pieces were in the wrong spots.

She figured out which ones were in wrong and put it all together correctly!

Over-all it was a pretty good puzzle. It was fun until I ruined it with Gevalia Traditional Roast. I think it's probably a good puzzle. It would've been hard enough because of all the different shades of blue in the sky, but the coffee-shaded pieces, swelling, and piece halving made it much more frustrating.

Anyway, we finished it.

What year was this Corn Palace display? I don't remember for sure. Usually it says the year on the front of the building, but either it didn't this year or they edited it out to... make the puzzle more timeless?

I thought about checking the box but...

I've spent way too much time and energy on this puzzle.

I hope you're happy. I did it for you.

Corn Dome!

My friend Vicky Vetter pointed out that I missed the Corn Palace domes on the grass a block or two away from the Palace itself. So she sent me the picture you see above to add to the blog! Enjoy!

Here is a picture of the Palace without the domes.

It's behind the Slush Puppie I drank whilst walking around. You can read my review of the Slush Puppie here on my other blog!

Thank you, Vicky!

Corn Palace Days 2014!

I just got back from a short, weekend visit to Mitchell. It was a whirlwind trip, but I did get to spend the better part of an hour on Sunday morning walking around the closed-down Corn Palace Days. I got a good group of pictures that you'll see below! Mitchell is just covered in Corn Palace.

They are redoing the Corn Palace!

They took off the domes, which makes the Palace look a little funny.

Corn Palace Days has lots of rides, games, and food vendors. This is probably my favorite Corn Palace ripoff I've ever seen!

You might not be able to see it, but there are a few domes painted over the words on this window.

This is what they put up before they add the corn to the murals!

And with the official Mitchell City Seal we are done! Look for another post soon. It'll be about something I bought at the Corn Palace gift shop!