Tourist Traps

Worst tourist trap in every state. How can any state park be a tourist trap? Someone has no sense of adventure / no sense of humor. One of those clickbait things taking every chance to blast Christianity. Some of the highlights:

Alabama: McDonalds visited by Ronald Reagan

California Fisherman’s Wharf

Connecticut Pez welcome center

Florida: skunk ape research center (sounds interesting)

Georgia: World of Coke. What’s wrong with that?

Illinois Navy Pier

Indiana largest ball of paint

Kansas largest ball of twine

Kentucky Ark Encounter “too pricy”

Louisiana Bourbon Street

Maine Land's End gift shop

Maryland God’s Ark of Safety still under construction

Nebraska: Carhinge

Nevada Area 51 Alien travel center & brothel

New Jersey Atlantic City Boardwalk

New Mexico international UFO museum

North Carolina High Point largest chest of drawers

Rhode Island big blue bug

South Carolina South of the Border

Tennessee: Graceland

Virginia Foamhenge

West Virginia Farnham Colossi

At least the Boll Weevil Monument didn't make the list. It sits in the middle of beautiful downtown Enterprise Alabama. Dr. marsh used to mention it in his sermons, and former roomate Mike Kirkland took me to see it when I went home with him to Enterprise.

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WES WESTRUM  [SABR Bio] replaced Casey Stengel as manager of the Mets. Halfway through the 1965 season Stengel had to retire after his hip operation. Westrum took over on 24-Jul as NY beat Philadelphia 8-1 at Shea. Westrum managed the team through the end of the 1967 season with a 142-237 record, at .375, an improvement over Casey’s .302 there. Wes is the masked catcher gracing the cover of the first issue of Sport Illustrated, on 16-Aug-1954, with Eddie Mathews at the plate and umpire Augie Donatelli.  More here. Westrum was traded for another team’s coach, completing the only coach-for-coach swap in major league history. He was traded from SF to NY for coach Cookie Lavagetto. After the 1963 season, Mets 1B coach Cookie Lavagetto was recovering from an operation & asked to be moved closer to his home near Oakland, California. He and Westrum agreed to the trade that accommodated Lavagetto, who went to the cross-bay San Francisco Giants. That brought Westrum back to New York with the Mets after he had played his entire 11-year MLB career with the New York Giants.

DENISON quoting Clayton Kershaw: “we felt the best thing to do in response was, instead of making a statement condemning, would be instead show what we do support, as opposed to maybe what we don’t. And that was Jesus. Kershaw disagreed with the Dodgers: “I don’t agree with making fun of other people’s religions. I don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion.” 

https://www.denisonforum.org/daily-article/clayton-kershaw-statement-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=How+Clayton+Kershaw+responded+to+the+Sisters+of+Perpetual+Indulgence&utm_campaign=05-31-23+How+Clayton+Kershaw+responded+to+the+Sisters+of+Perpetual+Indulgence%3A+Using+our+influence+for+Christ