Lee
and Karen Duquette,
The Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers |
went to the corn
palace in
Mitchell, South Dakota
to see the amazing Terry Fator
but first they had to park their RV in a campground
August 23, 2013 |
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The two RV Gypsies
stayed at Mitchell KOA 41255 SD Highway 38 for two nights, It was a
typical KOA campground. No cable TV, so only three channels came in.
It did have free, unsecured Wi-Fi and nice enough sites. Only a few
campground photos are posted.
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SURE TO SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE for the Corn Palace and Terry Fator. |
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Below: Views from the site
of the two RV Gypsies' RV at Mitchell KOA. |
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Below:
The World's Only Corn Palace located at 604 North Main Street in Mitchell,
South Dakota. This was the two RV Gypsies'
second visit to the Corn Palace. And their second time to see the amazing
Terry Fator.
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The Corn
Palace serves as a multi-use center for the community and region. The
facility hosts stage shows, as well as sports events in its arena. The
two RV Gypsies came here because they wanted to see Terry Fator perform
again. They saw Terry Fator on America's Got Talent and in Las Vegas
and really enjoyed his show and his amazing talent. The World's Only
Corn Palace is an outstanding structure which stands as a tribute to
the agricultural heritage of South Dakota. |
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original Corn Palace, 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. The third and present building was completed for it first festival
at the present location in 1921. The exterior decorations are completely
stripped down and new murals are created each year. The theme is selected
by the Corn Palace Festival Committee and murals are designed by a local
artist. The current Corn Palace built in 1921 was designed by Rapp and
Rapp the same architects used to design New York Radio City Music Hall. |
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Below:
The two RV Gypsies explored the inside of the Corn Palace
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Below: Corn footprints
in the hallway inside Mitchell Corn Palace |
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Over 275,000
ears of Corn are used in the decorating the outside of the Corn Palace
each year. Each year the Corn Palace is redecorated, selecting a new
theme and new designs. All the colors of corn are naturally grown with
special seed raised just for the Corn Palace. Each color must be planted
in separate fields to maintain its pure color. Below are just
a few photos taken of photos on the walls inside the Corn Palace showing
how the Corn Palace changes as years go by. |
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Below: A large
display inside the Corn Palace showing that corn is in so many products
that Americans use daily. |
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Below: Once outside of the
Corn Palace, the two RV Gypsies explored stores and posed for photos
with the giant corn figure across the street from the Corn Palace. |
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Below:
Two really interesting designs on T-shirts in the stores.
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Below: Karen Duquette and her
new Indian friend |
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If you
enjoyed this Corn Palace page, you may want to check out the first visit
the two RV Gypsies went to the
Corn Palace in 2009
AND
the third time they were at the Corn
Palace in 2016. Each trip was totally different.
Each of these pages has a link back here. Because you really
need to continue on below to see Terry Fator. |
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The two RV Gypsies went to
see Terry Fator perform at the Corn Palace. They had seen him in Las
Vegas, and Karen Duquette is perhaps his #1 fan because he is so talented.
The show at the Corn Palace was quite different from the show in Las
Vegas, but both shows were wonderful. The show at the Corn Palace was
the story of his life, how he went from being a janitor to winning America's
Got Talent, to having his own show in Las Vegas. It seems that Las Vegas
sends him on the road in the summer to promote Vegas and himself. It
was an interesting story. As usual Terry Fator performed with some of
his puppets. He is an amazing ventriloquist, and can impersonate famous
singers with amazing accuracy, both male and female. At the Corn Palace,
Terry Fator did a lot of singing with puppets. In Las Vegas, his act
was centered on the puppets, not his life, and not Las Vegas. There
is always a lot of comedy in his acts, and the audience gets to laugh
a lot. The two RV Gypsies highly recommend everyone in the world to
go see Terry Fator wherever and whenever they get the chance.
Below the 2013 photos are links to three other Terry Fator performances.
- NOT TO BE MISSED! |
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