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OJAI MAGAZINE | FALL 2021
Dwier Brown: Dwier Brown is wearing a pinstriped flannel baseball shirt, greeting fans, signing autographs, posing for pictures and hugging everybody.
It’s a hot, mid-June day in Dyersville, Iowa. A punishing sun bakes those patiently waiting in a long line to meet the actor who played Ray Kinsella, Kevin Costner’s father in the beloved movie Field of Dreams. Watching him through a telephoto lens, I am struck by how he engages every person, hour after hot hour.
easing their pain
