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Article: Tell City. (construction of sewer system spurs growth of city in Perry County, Indiana) (Regional Report: Southwest)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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In the movie "Field of Dreams," a struggling farmer played by Kevin Costner hears a voice in his cornfield whispering, "If you build it, they will come."
Inspired by that voice, he plows under half of his crop and, in its place, builds a beautifully manicured baseball diamond there in the middle of nowhere and attracts an endless string of tourists.
Shortly after taking office in 1988, Tell City Mayor Bill Goffinet had a similar pipe dream. Only his did not involve a baseball diamond, but a real pipe--a sewer pipe--extending almost 20 miles into the middle of nowhere in northern Perry County. But Goffinet went ahead and built it. And hoped they would come. "Most people ...
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