If you take a wrong turn on your way to the Loretta Lynn Ranch tourist attraction in central Tennessee, you might run across E.T. Wickham's remarkable statues and memorials that line a back road near Palmyra, south of Clarksville. They have been pulverized by vandals in the decades since he built them in the '50s, but their beauty is undiminished. If anything, ruin has added its own kind of eloquence.

http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/wickham/wik1.htm

Scott,

What's it gonna take to get you to move back to K-Town? You are, by far, the most interesting person i've "met" in a long time. Knoxville needs more peeps like you.

What's it gonna take to get you to move back to K-Town? You are, by far, the most interesting person i've "met" in a long time. Knoxville needs more peeps like you.

Well thanks Vertigo:

It will take about 5 - 10 years, as I have some traveling to do, If I live long enough I will be coming back there, to hopefully buy some land on the French Broad River.

I'll be back around christmas time to visit lol.

Knoxvillian abroad lol

Those are awesome. I really hate that vandals have to destroy things out of boredom.

http://sdjones.net/FolkArt/interlock.html

Height Bottle Markings
6" Half pint stamped on the bottom; "Federal law forbids..." around the top, and "Yellowstone" written on the metal cap.

Description, including signature and date
This bottle is distinguished by the intricate interlocking of the contents. The ladder rungs are mortised into the uprights, the spear and tools are mortised across the cross shaft, and on the reverse side, two snakes are mortised into the arms of the cross. The bottle is signed "L. Taylor Rt. 2 Box 141 Jamestown Tenn"