Posted on 02/24/2016 8:28:06 AM PST by prisoner6
These gnome houses in hollowed out logs were one of the first along the east end of Fisherman's Trail in Little Buffalo State Park. Park management has evicted the gnomes.
As Steve Hoke was leaving Little Buffalo State Park on Monday after removing 38 gnome homes, he met a man and his daughter.
The 7-year-old girl had just finished her last chemo treatment. Her dad asked what she wanted to do – she said she wanted to see in person the gnome houses that she had seen on Facebook.
Hoke was pulling a garden wagon full of the 38 gnome houses that since early December have been a wildly popular attraction along the trails of the state park in Juniata and Centre townships in Perry County.
Hoke offered her a gnome house.
Instead, she wanted the tiny Tinker Bell that had adorned the balcony of one of the homes along Fisherman's Trail.
(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...
A goniometer can measure the rapidity of gnome out-migration.
Gnomeless homes for homeless gnomes.
bump for later
There Gnome place like home...
What an expected act of Pa bureaucrisy...I guess Wolfe put PennDOT in charge of the parks (and neutrals and drives!)
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