Would you believe this is a literary allusion?
Yup, it’s after native son Sinclair Lewis’s novel Main Street. Seeing as the book’s a rather biting satire of small-town life, I’m not sure what the town fathers had in mind here. Well, at least they’re not the Babbits.
Sauk Centre, called Gopher Prairie in the novel, is a city of 4,500 right in the center of the state, about midway between Minneapolis and Fargo. They really play up the Lewis connection – the library, 2 sculptures, a street, his boyhood home, murals, a festival, a campground, etc., etc.
Wikipedia lists 10 notable people, though Lewis is the only one I’ve heard of. That said, I must admit, though, to a particular liking for Ody J Fish and Sylvester Uphus.
Sylvester
The high school has a little over 300 students. I’m afraid I couldn’t find all that much on it.
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