“Roadside America”
My beautiful bride has an app entitled ‘Roadside America’.
It has all kinds of weird things to stop and see.
For instance ‘The world’s largest wooden nickel’, the ‘Largest ball of twine’, the ‘toilet paper man statue’, and a statue dedicated to the ‘cotton boll weevil’.
Today we visited the site of the killing of a rampaging Indian elephant from a circus named ‘Mary’.
The elephants had been denied water, it was over 100 degrees that day.
Mary broke loose desperately looking for water.
She shattered several of the storefront windows on Main St, they believe the shimmering glass looked like water.
The handlers finally got to her and calmed her down. Unfortunately, there was a garage nearby where they were washing cars.
Mary smelled the water and made a dash for it terrifying the people at the garage whom ran for their lives.
The mayor Dr. Braddock, who happened to be an accomplished big game hunter, had retrieved a rifle, he shot Mary in the garage as she was drinking water.
— For the record, I would never shoot an Elephant, except to save a human life.
I will not kill sentient beings with out cause. —
The second site is a sculpture, dedicated to ‘Lewis and Clark’.
It is made from 50 Aluminum canoes.
Pictures: The ‘plaque’ marking the spot of Mary’s demise.
The Lewis and Clark Sculpture on the banks of the Snake River.
The originals of the last two were done as ‘spatial’ photos which won’t load, so I had to modify them.
I’ll post some fantastic pics from my last week soon- stay tuned!
Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
“Seneca”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
– Lucius Annaeus; Seneca the younger
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