Mitchell, South Dakota: Corn, Tourism, and Bulges

Mitchell, South Dakota is a small, square townof 15,000, on the Plains about 70 miles west of Sioux Falls. Known for its corn, tourism, and corn-based tourism.

And bulges.


Here are the top tourist draws:

1. The Mitchell Corn Palace, built in 1892, covered by murals constructed entirely of corn and other grains  (new murals are built every year).  There used to be several in the Plains, but it's the only one left.

It is kind of an impressive, kitchy Moorish-style building, but I'm not sure what you do there except look at it and say "That's a lot of corn." There's a comedy duo performing in March, and in April the Corn Palace Cup, a soccer invitational

2. Valtiroty Shiloh's Tabernacle: a "Bible Land" with a Garden of Eden, the ancient Hebrew Tabernacle, plastic cows in pens, a cardboard castle guarded by a dragon, and a proprietor anxious to save your soul.

3. The Prehistoric Indian Village, inhabited between 900 and 1000 AD, and excavated beginning in1910.  You can tour the archaeological site and the museum.

The McGovern Museum, dedicated to the life of the South Dakota senator and 1972 presidential candidate, who suffered a crushing defeat to incumbent, the soon-to-resign Tricky Dick Nixon (poor McGovern didn't even win his home state).

4. The Guns of History Gallery, consisting entirely of guns used at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

5. Dakota Wesleyan University, which is 130 years old, but still has a small, square campus with modern buildings. It's affiliated with the United Methodist Church, which is relatively gay-friendly, but still there's no gay student group.  There are plenty of bulges, though (top photo).

Athletics (The Tigers): wrestling, cross-country, no swim team.

I couldn't find a list of activities for Mitchell High School, home of the fighting Kernels, and searching for "Mitchell High School Gay" on google just gives me the names of people named "Mitchell Gay."

The athletics page just asks you to donate.  But searching for "Mitchell High School Wrestling" did reveal this person.  He might be from Mitchell Highs in South Dakota, Florida, Indiana, or North Carolina.











Or just someone named Mitchell.