"Bellows Falls is hurting, and here's this little group trying to get people to come here - just begging someone to turn right instead of left - and Big Brother is bouncing down on top of them and telling them they can't do it," said Frank Hawkins, the local sign painter who created the 7-by-30-foot scene on a clapboard barn next to the Exit 6 ramp. "The state is right, it is illegal, but just because the law is there it doesn't make the law right."
[From A sign of civilization- or the end of it - The Boston Globe]
Driving through Vermont just feels good. I keep getting lost, on the interstate, because I enjoy the view so much I miss my turn. It's a beautiful state to begin with, Vermont is, sort of like Wisconsin but vertical. But the best part of driving in Vermont is something you don't notice: billboards. Vermont is one of only four states that ban them (the others: Maine, Alaska, Hawaii). Alas, Bellows Falls.
And it's a pretty nice sign, too.
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