The girls passed between a three-story high wooden statue of a pilgrim woman outside Minnesota Territorial Pioneers’ Hall and the shuttered booth of Wendell R. Anderson Your Next Governor! “America the Beautiful” blared through a speaker from Wendell’s booth:
Wendell R. Anderson Your Next Governor!O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown they good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw
Confirm thy soul in self-control
Thy liberty in law!
The tinny sound of the song, and its relentless repetit
