Posted on 11/28/2023 4:53:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
The rise and fall of Orick's 9-ton redwood peanut By Ashley Harrell Updated Nov 21, 2023 11:28 a.m.
On a brisk November evening, on a drive through the tiny town of Orick some 300 miles north of San Francisco, I scanned the roadside in search of a giant, famous peanut.
The 6-foot-tall, 9-foot-wide, 9-ton peanut was carved from a redwood trunk by chainsaw back in 1977. Loggers then transported it to Washington D.C. as part of a protest against the expansion of Redwood National Park, which threatened their livelihoods. They hoped to present it to President Jimmy Carter, a former peanut farmer, with an attached sign that read: “It may be peanuts to you, but it’s jobs to us!”
Instead, the president’s aides turned the peanut away, and the loggers drove it back to Orick.
The park expanded, the town of Orick fell into decline, and the peanut has been sitting in a gas station parking lot ever since.
Well, what remains of it, that is. Earlier this year, someone crashed a car into the peanut, transforming it into a pile of rotten wood fragments.
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Moral of the story is; Take better care of your peanut?
Fake redwood? Should have not rotted in just 46 years.
Cedar fence posts in the ground last longer.
Uncle made a picnic bench out of a 100+ year old, salvaged redwood water tank wood.
I use to work up there. In the visitor center there is a great tree stump tha had grown around a stuck elk head. Pretty cool
Of course, the liberal filth pretty much killed off the logging industry, just like they kill off everything they touch. Shitstains on the earth is what they all are.
It probably caused a traffic jam. That can be cleaned up in a Jif. Just need to spread the work around.
Re was it created by George Washington Carver? (Very clever allusion and mid of words).
Try Woody Woodpecker as another suspect. Or Richard Pryor’s friend “peckerwood”.
I saw this last fall when driving through town.
It was the closest “Jimmah” Carter would ever come to having his likeness captured for the admiration of posterity—a veritable POTUS 39 Mount Nutmore.
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