Archive for August, 2008
« Previous EntriesTake That, Mound-Builders Of Yore
Thursday, August 28th, 2008For reasons currently unknown, the People Who Were Here Before Us built mounds all over the United States. Building a big mound is more complicated than it may seem, and only in recent years have the People Who Are Here Now been able to pile up mounds of similar grandeur — and turn them [...]
Old Nuke Reactor To Delight New Visitors
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Richland, Washington, has always been proud of its “Hanford Site,” a formerly top secret military area where most of America’s nuclear bomb plutonium was made. But there was never much for tourists to see, since much of Hanford is still radioactive and off-limits.
That changed on August 25, when Hanford’s B Reactor — which made [...]
Spacey New Home For UFO Museum
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008An article in Architectural Record offers the first peek at the proposed new digs for the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico. Two separate Massachusetts design firms will be creating the look of the building and its exhibits. The exterior resembles a melty, 1950s SF cover ala Richard Powers, while the interior [...]
Chair Fails to Rock Property Buyers
Monday, August 25th, 2008The rough real estate market appears to have dampened the prospects for the former World’s Largest Rocking Chair. Since 1990 the Chair has been a reason to visit Penrose, Colorado — even during the past two years, when the formerly sit-able rocker has been off-limits in a weedy patch behind a barbed wire fence.
The [...]
The Safe Highway Of Sexless Statues
Sunday, August 24th, 2008Roadside statues of obviously male animals are often rendered as if nature didn’t expect them to reproduce. We had imagined that this was mere American modesty, but recent reports hints that other forces are at play. Perhaps rarity has something to do with it, but there’s evidently something about an oversized public package [...]
Artist Yearns for Giant Lincoln Head
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Seventy-five-year-old artist Frank Gallo has a vision for Urbana, Illinois. He wants to build a 21-foot-tall bronze head of Abraham Lincoln, and set it on a plaza outside the Champaign County Courthouse. He even produced a Photoshop rendering of what the head would look like, which has probably done him more harm than [...]
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- Take That, Mound-Builders Of Yore
- Old Nuke Reactor To Delight New Visitors
- Spacey New Home For UFO Museum
- Chair Fails to Rock Property Buyers
- The Safe Highway Of Sexless Statues
- Artist Yearns for Giant Lincoln Head
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