What is Your Home Town's Claim to Fame?
Everybody’s home town has a claim to fame. My home town,
Gouverneur, NY is where the founder of the Life Savers Candy Company, E.J.
Noble, was born. There is a giant roll of Pep-O-Mint Life Savers in the middle
of town. This statue (along with the local museum’s two headed calf),
is what has earned Gouverneur mention on the Roadside America web site.
This is not a paid promotion. I don't even get a free bumper sticker or anything. I have just found some cool
stuff on the site. Roadside America is a guide to finding offbeat attractions,
which in my mind are the best kind! You can find any number of small town
museums, works made in homage to their originals (like Foamhenge in VA), and
stuff that you have only seen in the movies (hint for Kevin Smith fans, head for NJ).
This brings me to the real reason for this post. When
we were traveling a few weeks ago we stopped in a little town called Roscoe, NY.
Along with claiming to be the fly fishing capital of the world, there were
those photo props that you can put your head in all over the place.
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| Figlet & Her Daddy |
After
taking a bunch of pictures I thought ‘This place ought to be listed on the
Roadside America site’. So I sent them a tip, and now it is!
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| The End |
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