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Article: Field of Dreams played in Kohler

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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July 7, 1998
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Did Herb Kohler have a visitation from spirits of the past who beseeched him to oversee the development of Blackwolf Run, like the baseball park that was built in the film "Field of Dreams"? Did they chant, "If you build it, they will come?" This was my recurring thought as I watched the Women's Open in Kohler.

Perhaps what made the analogy so appropriate was that we were directed - quite courteously to drive our car into a field that was being mowed as we parked.

The people came all right, and they came in droves so many that sometime during the forenoon they began to get snappish when no more water or soda was available, only beer, making me wonder which spirit was in charge of ...

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