Little Marketing Scheme on the Prairie

If you live in Louisiana, you have Cajuns and Bayous. If you live in New York, you have the City and the Big Apple. In California, it's sun and movies. In Texas, it's Cowboys and... cowboys. In Minnesota, it's the prairie. When Laura Ingalls Wilder penned her famous "Little House" books from her home in Missouri, she probably had no idea she was prompting the name of several future business ventures in Minnesota and Dakota. You can drive along the historic Laura Ingalls Wilder Highway from Pepin, Wisconsin through Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and finally to De Smet, South Dakota. You can visit as many as 7 of her homesites nationwide. But in and around the Metro area, you can visit a plethora of Prairie places.

My favorite prairie place is "Little Sushi on the Prairie" in Eden Prairie. It's good, although I find it interesting to think any prairie place could be renowned for their excellent sushi.

But, also on Prairie Center Drive, you'll also find a Prairie View Shopping Center with Prairie View Chiropractic Clinic.

A local concert is being cleverly marketed "A little Beethoven on the Prairie." Your kids can go to "Little House on the Prairie camp."

So...after your day of prairie sushi, prairie shopping, a prairie back massage, picking up your kids from prairie camp after you've taken in a bit of Prairie Beethoven.... there's no better place to visit than the Prairie Pub for their "little drink special on the prairie."