That knock heralded a steady stream of people in the last quarter century who have lugged their emotional baggage all the way to 28995 Lansing Road. "I was born and raised here, lived here all my life," Lansing said, "and one day you get a knock on the door, and it changed my life forever." Lansing, 71, still is found most days on a lawn mower or tractor, tending to the Field of Dreams and his former farmstead, even though he and his wife, Becky (who met him on her own pilgrimage to the field in 1995), sold the land in 2012. But financing and construction delays have pushed back the projected opening to 2015.Īs debate over the physical field simmers, Costner and some fellow cast members are scheduled to return in June for the 25th anniversary celebration, appropriately enough, on Father's Day weekend. The Iowa Legislature stepped into the fray two years ago by offering up to $16.5 million in tax rebates for the proposed Ballpark Heaven. They've fought public relations battles on Facebook.
Residents have shed tears in City Council meetings. The company behind Ballpark Heaven, Go the Distance Baseball, now owns the 193 acres, but its zoning remains in dispute. The proposed All-Star Ballpark Heaven has sparked feuds and lawsuits between neighbors and against the city of Dyersville. The latest: An Illinois couple has pushed a plan to develop the farm around the field into a massive, $74 million baseball and softball complex for traveling youth-tournament teams.
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Since its inception, the movie site has lingered not only as a cherished symbol but also as the epicenter of continual disputes. "They don't cry, they weep about things gone unsaid in your life to people you love." "Men really weep," Costner said of "Field of Dreams" in an interview earlier this year with Yahoo Movies. The movie transcends sports by tapping the universal emotional resonance of a son's simple yearning to reunite with his late father. In the film, obsessed farmer Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, handcrafts his remote ball diamond after a disembodied voice whispers the request in his ear. Plenty of cornfields embraced the little scene to frame key camera angles. She was deployed to crisscross the dusty gravel roads of northeast Iowa in search of the perfect example of agricultural eye candy for the silver screen.Īs she crested a hill on Lansing Road just a few miles northeast of Dyersville, she spied her holy grail: a white clapboard, two-story farmhouse nestled against the hillside. But in 1987, she also was a local volunteer for the Iowa Film Office, a state government effort to lure Hollywood business to Iowa's prairie. Riedel, 68, taught speech and theater for 38 years at Hempstead High School in Dubuque.
Riedel's solo scouting trip in 1987 was a fateful moment for these 193 acres, which for the last quarter century have been home to the rural baseball diamond known as the Field of Dreams. DYERSVILLE, Iowa - Before a field was built, before anybody had the slightest inclination to come and have a catch, Sue Riedel spotted this picturesque farm.
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