Post-Apocalypse car! Backwoods shack! Free eye patch! Those are just a few of the perks awaiting a qualified candidate who lands the job as Wolfman at Clark’s Trading Post, Lincoln, NH. The attraction’s veteran mangy barbarian, Bill Farrand, has terrorized the steam train at Clark’s for 15 years, and is retiring. The role calls for […]
Motorcycles and road trips are inseparable companions. But recent news stories suggest that more celebrity/unusual cycles are becoming part of the attractions — and that the marriage is sometimes more akin to a shotgun wedding. Some displays are perfectly natural, such as the current Indiana Jones motorcycle exhibit at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, […]
The relocation — or “adoption” as it’s known locally — of the giant statues formerly at Magic Carpet Golf in Tucson, Arizona, is nearly complete. But if you yearn for two of the biggest statues, the toothy dinosaur or the sedate Sphinx, they’re still available. “Each would take 20 grand, maybe more, to move,” said […]
John Grate lived to be 103. His eternal memorial only lived to be 59. Grate was Ohio’s last living Civil War veteran. He died in 1949 in the town of Atwater, was buried in the local cemetery, and had a six-foot-tall marble monument erected in his memory. It was destroyed in March of this year, […]
