Salem Sue, the world's largest Holstein cow, towers above I-94 in homage to the region's dairy farmers. Dunseith houses a turtle made from 2,000 wheel rims and the world's largest buffalo resides in Jamestown. Most roadside attractions celebrate the cultural life of a region or leech onto an existing tourist infrastructure. Greff's Enchanted Highway is a metallic rain dance for an economy to come. Even before the decline in Midwestern family farms in the '70s and '80s, Regent was a town of just 500.
Seniors make up the bulk of the citizenry.
Regent has not had a police officer in 12 years and its children travel 45 minutes each way to school. The art of disappearing Folk artist Kenny Hill left a decade's work on the banks of a Louisiana bayou, then vanished. The Enchanted Highway is a community effort. The highway wouldn't have gotten off the ground without the support of the town, says Brenda Wiseman, manager of Regent's Consumers Co-op. Wiseman has helped Greff raise funds since the project's inception.