Archive for January, 2009

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The Hershey Story: Chocolatey Goodness, Sort Of

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

After an investment of $23.5 million, The Hershey Story has opened to the public in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  It’s a complete rework of the town’s old Hershey Museum, and tells the story of the only name in America linked to a man, a town, and a candy (It also complements Chocolate World, a fake chocolate factory [...]

Roadside News: Jan. 9, 2009

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Mutter Museum | Enchanted Forest | Behold the Unmelted | Cars of 1957 | Thunderbox!

Truck Tombstone Reaches Final Parking Place

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Since 1994, an 11-foot-long, 1,800-pound tombstone carved to resemble a logging truck has been an attraction at the Salisbury Monument Co. in Salisbury, Maryland. “We were on a buying trip in Elberton, Georgia,” recalled Wanda Disharoon, “on a back road in a little town named Dewey Rose. And there in front of a house was [...]

Roadside News: Jan. 7, 2009

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Ceremonial Cross Diving | Missing Nut | No Sprinkles on Mine | Creationist Convicts | New Orleans Neighborhood Art

Roadside Attractions: Cheap Targets For Senate Bullies

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Money is tight at the moment, and U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R) has used the current recession to attack even the thought of federal money going to Las Vegas’s proposed Mob Museum (One Vegas bureaucrat replied indignantly that, “We think our projects are just as important as those of the other local jurisdictions in the [...]

Bigfoot And The Dinosaurs: Past Pals?

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Most year-end Top Ten Lists are predictable. But item number six in the Mineral Wells Index’s roundup of 2008 caught our attention: “One day during the summer, former Mineral Wells resident Alvis Delk … said he and his close friend, James Bishop, had recovered a piece of limestone near Glen Rose that, upon recent cleaning, [...]

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