The Enchanted Highway #1: Regent, ND

Welcome to Midwest Oddities, a show where I bring you to some of the most bizarre, unusual and down-right cool spots in the Midwest to fill that roadside-oddity hole deep inside each and every one of you.

The Enchanted Highway features the World's Largest Metal Sculptures produced by artist Gary Greff.

Gary is a native of Regent, North Dakota. He was a teacher and a school principal and had never done any art work or welding prior to 1989. He then began dreaming of ways to bring people and businesses to the small community of Regent -- fearing the town would someday die if it relied solely on farming. A hay bale strongman built by a farmer inspired him. He watched people pull off the road to snap photos of the oddity. He wondered how many people would stop for huge metal sculptures. He began designing, welding, and painting. The Tin Family was erected in 1991; Teddy Rides Again in 1993; Pheasants on the Prairie in 1996; Grasshoppers in the Field in 1999; Geese in Flight in 2001; and Deer Crossing in 2002. He was working on Fisherman's Dream from 2003 to 2006, and it is now erected.

Join me as we take a stroll through Regent, ND and some of the interesting sculptures (a lunar rover made from spare parts?!?) inside the town that starts off the Enchanted Highway.

Have ideas of a place Tom should visit for a future episode? Email me at midwestoddities@sector512productions.com

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• midwest
• north dakota
• roadside
• road side oddity
• scultpure
• buffalo

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i stayed in this litte town for harvest