Flowers for Mitchell, SD

Every town has a landmark; Mitchell's is covered in corn. The World's Only Corn Palace anchors Main Street, its murals redone each year in colored grain, and the flower shops a block or two away work the same downtown that the tour buses do. But the day-to-day here is a working farm-belt city of fifteen thousand: anniversary roses for a house on the Lake Mitchell shore north of town, get-well arrangements walked into Avera Queen of Peace on North Foster, graduation bouquets for the Dakota Wesleyan lawn and the Mitchell Technical College campus, and birthday deliveries down the residential grid between the interstate and the James River valley. I-90 clips the south edge and Highway 37 runs the north-south spine, so a delivery route usually means a tight downtown loop, then the additions out toward the lake and the county roads to Mount Vernon and Ethan.

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