This admirable hill awaits the poet and the painter, who should visit it when the last rays of the setting sun are falling upon it.

~ Joseph N. Nicollet, explorer

The city of Pipestone, Minnesota is a town that sits on the border of South Dakota in southwestern Minnesota. It always felt like a far off place to me as a child growing up in a Minneapolis suburb. I'm not sure it's much different now as family asked why I wanted to drive all the way out there; they had no idea that the Pipe...