Trift + Patience = Success (better late than never)

With the move and all, it's taken me a while to get around to blog about my trip in July. The first port of call was Cawker City, Kansas, home of the world's largest twine ball. The town of Cawker City knows why it is on the map. While the residents of Darwin, Minnesota, decided not to add to their giant twine ball when its winder died (See Roadside America.), the patriarchs of Cawker City continued the efforts of Frank Stoeber after his death in 1974. The town also decided to add more than just sisal twine. The windows of the shops up and down main street of Cawker City are filled with copies of famous works of art, each with a ball of twine strategically inserted. I captured many of them here.