Benton County
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The 2007 film "The Final Season," starring Sean Astin, was based on the true story of the 1991 Norway High School baseball team and how it won the state championship in its last season before consolidation.
Named for the Thomas Hart Benton
Who was senator from Missouri.
Not for the Thomas Hart Benton
Whose paintings were not at all dreary.
In Vinton, the courthouse is Beaux Arts.
And they once had a school for the blind.
Long ago, young Mary Ingalls went there,
But she left sister Laura behind.
The people in little 'ol Blairstown
Have an annual Sauerkraut Days.
They play a game there called Rolle Bolle,
Brought from Belgium, across the waves.
In the very small town of Norway,
They once had a great baseball team.
A movie was made all about them,
With the coach played by Samwise Gamgee.