Fulfilling the prophesy

Ray Kinsella heard a voice that said "If you build it, he will come." Okay, Ray was a fictional character and I'm not the "he" who would come. Still, the ball field from the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams" is drawing people nearly twenty years later. The site is listed on the register's list of 100 places and was only a few miles out of our way so we took the time to stop by and remember. Of course, we walked out of the corn, walked the bases, and answered the question "Is this heaven?" I even plunked down a few dollars for a bit of memorabilia. Terence Mann pretty well right on...

Terence Mann: Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.