ABOUT

One concrete wall, twenty handmade chapters.

Corbett Story documents the 120-foot mural along the wall at Corbett Field, the ballpark in Minot, North Dakota where baseball has been played since 1937. The mural is made of twenty panels built from wood, fire, epoxy and paint, and each panel carries a piece of local history, an inside joke, or a detail meant to be found up close.

Who made it

The mural was designed and built in the summer of 2025 by Michael Gustafson with Kelsie, with a great deal of help from Travis, friends, local teams and the community groups whose stories ended up on the wall. Puppers, the family dog, is hidden in it too. The project started as a single twelve-by-seven-foot puzzle panel and grew into all twenty sections once it was clear the whole wall needed a story.

How it was built

Most panels are dimensional rather than flat. Cedar planks, fractal-burned wood, CNC-routed shapes, glow-in-the-dark paint and luminescent epoxy were layered so the wall changes with daylight, distance and, after dark, a UV light. Materials from the field itself, like the real half-baseball in the welcome panel, became part of the work.

The field

Corbett Field began as Minot Municipal Ballpark, built from 1935 to 1937 through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and designed by Minot architect Ira Rush. It was later named for Dr. Victor A. Corbett, a local dentist and Park Board president when the grandstand roof and lights were added in 1947. Satchel Paige pitched here.

Who runs this site

Corbett Story is published by Luckey Bear Creations LLC, a small studio in Minot, North Dakota. The site tells the mural's story, shows it panel by panel, and raises support for the next community mural. Contributions support a Luckey Bear Creations LLC project and are not charitable donations. Questions are welcome on the contact page.