Christians have been building giant crosses next to highways for some time, from early efforts in Hopwood, Pennsylvania, and Nelsonville, Ohio, to modern stratospheric titans in Groom, Texas, and Effingham, Illinois. Now a new wrinkle has been added: color. The Open Door Baptist Church of Clear Brook, Virgina, erected a 100-foot-tall, 57,500-pound steel cross just […]
We were talking on Tuesday afternoon — Election Day — to David Adickes, sculptor of big President heads, to find out when his third Presidents Park would open .
This story first surfaced on the Huffington Post a few weeks back — and we shrugged it off as political bluster in an election year. But now the Virginian-Pilot confirms the rumors: Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia, may be ousted to make room for a Wal-Mart. The three Presidents Parks scattered across the country feature […]
What moves an ocean liner from point A to point B? It’s not the fuel; it’s the propeller, screwing itself through Neptune’s domain, shoving the boat ahead of it. Titanic-sized propellers rarely get appreciated because they’re usually under water. And, also, they’re tremendously large and heavy. They’re the giant buckets of the maritime world. An […]
