b'Ignore that there is something vaguely Kremlinesque in those onion-bulb turrets. Banish the skeptical suspicion that the Corn Palace is a cathedral to industrial agriculture; it was built in 1892, when Mitchell, South Dakota, was a 12-year-old town with 3,000 inhabitants, and a hundred million acres of GMO corn was not yet even imaginable. Recognize that most corn grown hereabouts aint organic and ends up in ethanol and high-fructose corn syrup, far away. Wonder about the varieties in Willie Nelsons visor. Then, celebrate the Corn Palaces personalityan irrepressible expression of agrarian spirit, folk art, and farm pride. And celebrate, with a similar degree of respect and affection, the work of Re:Vision building back yard gardens and creating a food cooperative in a Denver food desert.24'