Roadside News: August 2, 2009
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009Barker Vs. Bear Pits – NC | Sisters Frown on Wax for Great Blacks – MD | Music and Hair Inseparable? – SC | James Bond Vehicle Museum – IL
Roadside News: July 14, 2009
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009No Jackson Behemoth for Vegas – NV | The Bucket Was On My Bucket List – TN | Cider Barrel Rules – MD | Magical Monoliths Rise Again in Texas – TX
Jinxed 9-11 Statue in Trouble Again
Saturday, July 4th, 2009In late 2007, sculptor Stan Watts finally erected his large statue of three 18-foot-tall firefighters raising a U.S. flag above the rubble of the World Trade Center — literally, with real rubble from Ground Zero scattered at their feet. Emmitsburg, Maryland Watts had worked on the sculpture for five years. The 8-ton bronze, titled To [...]
Truck Tombstone Reaches Final Parking Place
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Since 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 [...]
America’s Oldest Road Sign To Get Back On A Road
Sunday, August 31st, 2008In the 1750s a British General, Edward Braddock, marched 2,000 troops through the Allegheny Mountains toward what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Along the way a 2000-pound rock was set up near Frostburg, Maryland, engraved with distances and directions to places such as Captain Smyth’s Inn and Redstone Old Fort. People came to call it “The [...]
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