Note: Regulars here know that I’m a big baseball fan. A few years ago, I made a pilgrimage to the Iowa farm that served as the location for Kevin Costner’s classic film, Field of Dreams. What follows is one of the stories I wrote about that excperience. ————————————————————————— Dyersville, Iowa, with a population of just…
I frequently have occasion to rent a car when I travel. Several years ago, I rented a Hertz car for a few days in Saumur, France. It was a small operation and when I brought it back at the appointed time, there was no one in the little office so, as instructed, I left the…
Don Lansing maintains the diamond himself and pays for the cost of its upkeep with proceeds from the sale of caps, T-shirts and other Field of Dreams items at a busy souvenir stand. The community of Dyersville has also benefited from all the activity generated by the ball field on Don Lansing’s farm. Two new…
The Lansing family has owned this farm for a hundred years. Don Lansing, born and raised in Dyersville and the current owner of the property, surveys the activity going on all around him and smiles. “Pretty typical for a summer day,” he says. Lansing has long since become accustomed to having people around his place…