POLK CITY — Emmy award-winning actor Nick Offerman stepped out of a car, walked over to a hill that overlooked a baseball field at a Polk City farm, and gazed over it with amazement as he got his first look at the site where the “Field of Dreams” television show he was set to be a part of was going to be filmed.

“It’s gorgeous,” Offerman said.

The moment was a long time coming for Offerman, who came to Des Moines on Oct. 14 to promote his new book “Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop’s Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery.” But before the event at the Franklin Event Center, the famous actor swung through Polk City to visit the diamond he was going to be working at.

“I have four or five of these (farms) in my family in central Illinois,” Offerman said during the visit. “So, this is already, wi

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