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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008After four years and several setbacks, the world’s largest Ronald Reagan statue will be unveiled in Covington, Louisiana, this Friday. The statue was not Covington’s idea. “We had nothing to do with it,” said city council president Trey Blackall. A local oil tycoon, however, was interested in building a big Reagan tribute, [...]
Boot Hill for Tex Randall?
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008The giant statue of Tex Randall, the lean and leaning cowboy, has been a looming fixture in Canyon, Texas, for almost 50 years. But the ground beneath his size 75 boots is up for sale, and the town faces a vexing problem: can it afford to move its hardscrabbled civic symbol?
Frankly, teetering Tex has [...]
Inventors Hall of Fame No Perpetual Motion Machine
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008A story in the Beacon Journal confirms what we had suspected: the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Akron, Ohio, has wound down to full stop. Its web site skirts the issue by talking of “construction,” but it’s the construction of the middle school that’s being built where the Hall of Fame used [...]
Golden Spike Tower Opens
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Back in 1999, North Platte, Nebraska, dreamed up a bold plan to attract visitors. They would capitalize on their status as home of the world’s largest railroad yards by erecting a giant tower shaped like a golden spike from which railroad buffs could observe the train action in the yards. The tower would be covered [...]
Slabapalooza!
Monday, June 16th, 2008There’s no denying it; Americans have become slab-happy.
First came the “The Slabs” in Niland, California, an abandoned military base of empty concrete foundations and desert refuge for squatters and snowbirds out by Salvation Mountain.
Next came imported, chopped-up Berlin Wall sections in the early 1990s. Slabs from the Wall — magically imbued with Cold War strife [...]
Witch Museum Conjures Red Trail
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Downtown Salem, Massachusetts, is popular with tourists on foot, who often follow the town’s “Heritage Trail” marked by a red line painted on the pavement. Attractions along the red line can count on steady customers.
The red line doesn’t stop at the Salem Witch Museum. Its owner, in fact, has accused the mayor of [...]
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