Thanks for posting the photo. I don’t know how to do it or I would have. I’ve always been struck by how much the Piasa resembles creatures from other cultures. The story goes that the Piasa was a bird (a flying dragon? a thunderbird?). If it was a water monster, it could fly, as well as swim. Alton, IL, is on what’s known as The Great River Road because the highway follows the wide Mississippi River next to high limestone bluffs. The Piasa bird can be seen from the highway, painted on the pallisades.
..there be dragons...
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