In the end, however, Paul Bunyan is the unofficial patron saint of clear-cutting and carries all of the political baggage that the title now entails. This one resides in Bemidji, Minnesota, while a few of the other notable ones can be found in Brainerd, Minnesota Bangor, Maine Klamath, California and Ossineke, Michigan. The big fella is the subject of so many statues and woodcarvings it's impossible to tally them all. Invent the logging industry and chop down vast tracts of forest by himself. Legend has it the young and rambunctious duo created the state's 10,000 lakes with their horseplay. He grew up on the coast of Maine but relocated with Babe to Minnesota. The giant lumberjack was said to be 80 pounds when five giant storks delivered him as a baby, and he grew so fast he was wearing his father's clothes within a week. Throughout the northern forests - and almost every other corner of the country - the hero of so many tall tales is immortalized as a gigantic statue, often accompanied by his sidekick, Babe the Blue Ox. Let's get started on our road to roadside statues with a 40-foot-tall character from Arizona in the next section.īig Paul Bunyan might just be the mascot of the American road.
No matter what the finished product looks like, there was an inspiration behind each and every one of the roadside effigies you'll find in this article. Sure, a statue can be a respectful homage to a truly great person, but once the thing is bigger than life (i.e., humongous), the exaggeration tends to undercut the sanctity. Or a cartoon character who has migrated from the funny pages to the side of the highway. Alternately, it could be a generic stereotype - say, a pirate, a cowboy, or a lumberjack. These larger-than-life creations don't even have to be real people: The subject of a roadside sculpture can be the stuff of tall tales or legend. The inspiration might be an animal, even a common household pest like a termite, and somebody could still find a reason to build a super-size model to scale. So who exactly is deserving of having their likeness magnified, carved or molded, and presented to the occupants of passing vehicles? To be honest, the bar hasn't been set all that high. While the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, and religious icons the world over inspired the artists responsible, regionally grown legumes and brightly colored animals also proved themselves effective muses. When the West opened up to the middle class as a vacation destination, it catalyzed a movement to create the brashest statues and put them up in places where the most out-of-towners could see them. While the very oldest roadside Americana predates the car, the bulk of roadside statues came to be in the latter half of the 20th century. In order to avoid a car accident, the safest course of action is to take the time to pull over and examine this colossus of Anywhere, USA, up close. They are so hard to absorb while moving at 75 miles an hour. It's nearly impossible to escape the stare of someone who looms 100 feet over a city. Like guardians of this strange land you're speeding through, they watch and protect. Just becuase you are ignorant of how an appliation works and to lazy to look up instructions on line or in a book does not give you right to treat us rudely.There is something at once disconcerting and reassuring about colossal statues near the highway. We work no better nor worse under pressure from rude people but often sleep better when working with people who treat us like human beings. Lastly, almost none of us work for Adobe here and none of us are paid. However, it's also better than a marking pen in that you can delete it, just right-click on it and "delete."
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