Northfield’s blue barn becomes a Culver’s landmark
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That mysterious painting of a barn along I-35 in Northfield that Audrey Kletscher Helbling, who writes the Minnesota Prairie Roots blog, discovered recently?
It's done, she says.
The barn once featured an advertisement for Sugardale wieners but that's been wiped from the landscape in favor of the ad for Culver's. Or is it a genuine article of gratitude? Or both?
Something to contemplate each time you drive by, I suppose.
What does a farmer get out allowing a barn to be painted blue? Culver's has not yet responded to the question.
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