Adair County
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Adair has a yellow, smiley-face water tower that is visible from Interstate 80. Hall of Fame pitcher Charles Arthur "Dazzy" Vance was born in Orient in 1891.
Jesse James once robbed a bank here
In Eighteen seventy-three.
Dick Van Dyke once made a film here.
They called it Cold Turkey.
The county seat of Greenfield
Has a curious courthouse square.
The streets all enter in the middle of the block,
Which is, they say, quite rare.
The city of Adair is called
The Happiest Town on Earth.
The town of Orient
Was Dazzy Vance's place of birth.
Henry Wallace came from here,
A veep for FDR.
Of course he went to Iowa State
'Cause Ames is not that far.