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THE IRON HORSE

I've blogged about the Iron Horse before, but I think it was during the old Blogspot days, and I didn't have a picture to share.

The Horse was the creation of one Abbott Pattison, who welded the two-ton sculpture in 1954 to grace the campus of the University of Georgia.

Boys being boys, and neckbones being neckbones, the horse was the target of ridicule for several years, until the school put it in storage in shame. In 1959 a farmer requested the artwork be placed in his field on Highway 15, south of Athens, where it remains to this day, viewable to all who pass.

I used to see the Iron Horse as a kid when we went to north Georgia on vacation, and I loved it. I still do. When I was in grad school I danced around the Iron Horse one day whilst befucked on lysergic acid, just because it was fall and the hay was high. I likes the Iron Horse.