Carhenge

Larry & Teddy "are full-time RVers, we live and travel in a '5th Avenue' 30-foot fifth wheel trailer w/2 slides and base our travels out of the Schlueter family cherry farm in Leelanau County near Traverse City, Michigan."

Their blog entry this past Tuesday read as follows:

Carhenge

On the way from Cheyenne to our next stop at Chadrin, Nebraska we just had to stop and see "Carhenge" at Alliance, Nebraska.

Carhenge was erected in the middle of a dusty field by six local families during a reunion in 1987 to replicate England's Stonehenge.

The cars have since been painted a uniform grey to make the monument even more striking.

There was a time when the residents of Alliance wanted to tear down Carhenge and the Nebraska Department of Highways wanted to label it a "junkyard" and build a big fence around it.

Not any more!

Now signs on the outskirts of town proudly identify Alliance as "The Home of Carhenge" as does the sign in front of the local Best Western.

A gift shop down the road proclaims, "We sell Carhenge souvenirs."

According to Carhenge's self-appointed caretaker only about 40% of the people who visit know about the original Stonehenge.

"We get a lot of remarks like, 'What the hell is this?' in our comments box," he sighs.

"But the people come from all over just the same."

In the wake of Carhenge anything goes as evidenced by the first refrigerator Stonehenge under construction in northwest Santa Fe, NM.

About 200 refrigerators are arranged in a dusty field as Stonefridge.

The explanatory sketch on the fence reads: "From the Stone Age to the Appliance Age."

It appears to be partly completed: the array of refrigerators will be stacked and combined into full-size monoliths with cross pieces and astronomically configured.

The artist, Adam Jonas Horowitz, is creating a "monument to consumerism;" he's been at it since at least 1996, stymied at points by the need for city approval and structural safeguards.

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That's Teddy at Carhenge in the photo below.

Memo to Adam Jonas Horowitz: Stonefridge won't cut it.

Try Fridgehenge.

Ooh, just now a joke appeared, fully formed, in my peabrain.

Q. What's the preferred investment of Druids?

A. Henge funds.

[via Allan Moult, editor of leatherwoodonline.com and larryandteddy.blogspot.com]