If You Quack It, He Will Come

"If you quack it, he will come." 

The voice awoke NOT from his sleep. He couldn't shake the feeling that he'd heard that voice before. 

Oh yea. In that movie that he watched last night. Field of Dreams. About the guy who built a baseball field in his Iowa cornfields. 

"No one would do that in real life, would he?" NOT wondered. 

When what did he find out but someone did, in Dyersville, Iowa. NOT had to see that. So off to the corn state he went.

It was just like the movie. With the corn. And the farmhouse. And the baseball field. And the souvenir stand. Oh wait, that was put up *since* the movie.

But other than that, it was eerily just like you saw in the film. NOT wanted to run the bases, but there were too many big kids there, and his short legs couldn't make it to first in time. 

While in the area, NOT nervously checked out the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Nervous not because he was afraid of the students, but because he heard it was the home of the Panthers. What a panther is doing in Iowa, he had no idea, but he was not going to take any chances. 

All this flying made NOT's back hurt. Luckily, he was in the home of Chiropractics - Davenport, Iowa. 

Then he remembered that he has no spine to adjust. Just stuffing. Boo Hoo!

Soon he retreated to the safety of the Cedar Rapids Airport, where he whiled away the time before his flight home learning about the airport's history. 

All that way on a trip and he never ate an ear of corn. Some duck he is!

Photos J.J. Kwashnak

Last Updated March 2001