Or, more likely, willingness to have things painted on one's barn in exchange for money.
Day 37
State pride!
May 2nd, 2010
I'm walking across America.
That's the idea, at least. I'm walking westward from New York City for nine months or so. If everything goes according to plan, I'll be in Oregon when the clock runs out. If nothing goes according to plan, maybe I'll end up in Peru or Mongolia or Pennsylvania. You can read all about the details of my trip if you're so inclined.
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Here's my progress so far:
“Round on the sides, and high in the middle–O-HI-O”
I think it cost the state btwn half a million and a million bucks to do…
To celebrate and commemorate Ohio’s 200th anniversary as a state, the Ohio Bicentennial Commission selected artist Scott Hagan to paint at least one barn in each of Ohio’s eighty-eight counties with the bicentennial logotype. The project began in 1997 and was completed in September 2002. Hagan sketched the image by hand on each barn before painting it. No two barns are exactly alike. Hagan completed all of the work himself and used one hundred paintbrushes and 645 gallons of paint. As Hagan traveled across Ohio, he drove approximately sixty-five thousand miles with his truck. Several people followed Hagan from barn to barn as he completed his work. Several journalists have completed stories on the barns and people from across the United States have come to see them. All of the barns survived to the bicentennial celebration in 2003 with one exception. In 1998, a tornado destroyed the Ottawa County barn. Hagan painted a second one in the county in 2001.
Neat but a ridiculous waste of time and $$. Also, these were supposedly to be seen from a reasonably major highway…explain the one in my county that is tucked behind a house in a residential area with tons of trees and not even in remote sight of the highway….excellent planning.
Always there has to be a negative Nancy!
There’s a red barn with this logo on it in my neighborhood, about 2 minutes from where I live. It’s nice to see it everyday as it is on a main roadway here.