In Brownsville, Tennessee there’s an enormous monument of structural steel teetering out up of the earth. It’s called the Mind Field, and it’s the life’s work of an artist named Billy Tripp. Producer Hal Humphreys visited the site with Tripp and learned about the man who inspired it: Tripp’s father.
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