City Tour: More Than Just a Walk Around the Block

With the coming of fall, so too comes our annual 3rd-Grade Walking Sleepy Eye City Tour, including chats and insights garnered via visits with longtime residents as well as stops at various historical city sites.

This year, our tour guide Mark Bieto, a longstanding local business owner and grandfather to our own third-grader Nora, did a wonderful job introducing us to some of Sleepy Eye's more important historical markers, each uniquely significant to our own proud city's history and heritage.

In addition to learning interesting factoids about the W.W. Smith Mansion, the Berg Hotel, and Chief Sleepy Eye, we were also privy to some pertinent and compelling stories surrounding each of those individual entities. And though some may find our city's name slightly unusual, it now makes perfect sense to all our third-grade students, compliments of our own willing and knowledgable citizens who made today possible!

Sleepy Eye, what a wonderful place to grow and live!