rickb
03-24-2011, 18:34
While thru hikers celebrate all kinds of foods up and down the Trail, only one foodstuff that I know of is commemorated with its own statue along the footpath itself.
I am referring, of course to the giant Cheese monument in Massachusetts.
For years I had assumed that its manufacture was done out of a sense of civic pride, and love for country and President Jefferson. Now I have come to learn that it may have been the work of political malcontents. At least that is what is suggested here:
http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2010/05/the-mammoth-cheese-of-chershire.html
If so, if that right? The more I learn about history along the Trail the more disillusioned I am becoming. God bless American, but this one is kind of hard to take.
I am referring, of course to the giant Cheese monument in Massachusetts.
For years I had assumed that its manufacture was done out of a sense of civic pride, and love for country and President Jefferson. Now I have come to learn that it may have been the work of political malcontents. At least that is what is suggested here:
http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2010/05/the-mammoth-cheese-of-chershire.html
If so, if that right? The more I learn about history along the Trail the more disillusioned I am becoming. God bless American, but this one is kind of hard to take.