Regent ND/The Enchanted Hwy June 2021
Thirty-two miles south of the nearest major highway is the town of Regent, North Dakota. It was dying, and Gary Greff decided that someone had to do something about it.
Inspired, he later said, by the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, and its misremembered catchphrase "Build it, and they will come," Gary began building giant artworks to entice travelers off of the interstate and into town.
A metal sculptor and retired Regent schoolteacher, Gary's plan was to create ten huge sculptures, paired with pullouts and picnic areas, every few miles along Regency-Gladstone Road -- which he christened The Enchanted Highway. All of the sculptures would face north, toward the oncoming traffic from Interstate 94.
Regent ND/The Enchanted Hwy June 2021
Thirty-two miles south of the nearest major highway is the town of Regent, North Dakota. It was dying, and Gary Greff decided that someone had to do something about it.
Inspired, he later said, by the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, and its misremembered catchphrase "Build it, and they will come," Gary began building giant artworks to entice travelers off of the interstate and into town.
A metal sculptor and retired Regent schoolteacher, Gary's plan was to create ten huge sculptures, paired with pullouts and picnic areas, every few miles along Regency-Gladstone Road -- which he christened The Enchanted Highway. All of the sculptures would face north, toward the oncoming traffic from Interstate 94.