Like great Paleface writer suggested, Chief take 'the road less traveled' the other day.

And what was there to greet him??? Plaster Indians!!!

BAH!

Time for War Paint ?

Chief get into firewater he a plastered Indian.

Fake Indians, Fake boat, fake everything...

Boat real.

http://www.ship-ashore.com/ 

Big Chief should protest the plaster Indians, they do not look very good....an insult to the Great Warriors they are mocking.

Charlie

The S.S. "W"

Captained by RICKAMAVEN?

"Boat real."

Yes, technically, that's a real boat, but any ship sitting in the middle of a grassy field is pretty much fake in my book...Having a once proud ship sitting in the middle of a field is about as tasteful as the plaster Indians - which is to say "not at all".

Shovel, bear in mind who/what these people are: One of the pioneer families that settled this area in 1850's, and began farming.

Everybody talks about 'poor farmers', but you cannot prove that by the local farmers here, who are among the wealthiest families in the county.

The 'Ship' is located on local tribe's traditional village site, and they have been trying hard for the past several decades to recover the site--eventually, they will.

I agree with your opinion of it's tackiness, however. But at the time it was drug onto the field, it was not uncommon to do this sort of thing to attract attention from passing motorists.

Oh i thought it said plastered indians......

My bad

Cooper

A plaster Indian wife might not be so bad. Bet she doesn't talk back that much. I got a real one and talk about getting lectured. (Sorry Millie) LOL

Ships should die at sea, not in a field...so wrong...

You'd never see that in New Mexico...of course, the only body of water in NM large enough for that boat is a man-made lake (Elephant Butte) under which a town lies...

^ How does the town feel about that?

Well, the Army Corps of Engineers bought out the few people who actually lived there, then expanded the "town" into a large CCC construction camp. The camp/town was flooded when work was completed on the dam. About the only thing that people think is a little creepy is that workers who died during construction were buried just outside the camp/town, and were left there when the lake was flooded. They say that a person can scuba dive and see the old post office, graves, building, etc, which are still more or less in tact.

Drowning city? Drowning graves? In scary movie, the drowned would come out at night and swim around...

"pioneer families that settled this area in 1850's"

No, no, no, pioneer families settled in New Mexico in the 1540's...THAT's a pioneer family. You'll like this one...One of the first things they (the Spanish settlers) did was give the Native Americans the right to vote under the rules of the Spanish crown. A right which the United States TOOK AWAY when they took over New Mexico...Nice, huh?

Shovel, yeah, this part of US not get settled until '49er' gold rush, so we are pretty 'new' here.

Curious history tidbit: While Spain controlled/owned this vast part of North America, they were (understandably) having trouble getting it settled. No Spanish grandee worth his salt wanted to surrender the high-society of Seville for the barren, culture-less wasteland of the New World. But Spain also had a problem: 100s & 100s of Second and Third sons--sons who were not in line to 'inherit' (first sons got that). What to do with all these sons of good family, but nothing to do but promenade and spend family $? So, the Spanish Crown was persuaded to make massive, massive land grants in New World, and these grants were given to the aimless wastrels of nobility--problem was, they had to give up Spain, come here and MAKE IT PAY! LOL!

Many of the counties we know today, at least in California, were once Spanish Land Grants. Ventura County, North of Los Angeles comes to mind. It once belonged to Desi Arnez's mother's family. Worthless when given, but it included most of what we know today a Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, Hollywood, Worth heap unconcievable billions of wampum today.

We still have Spanish land grants surviving today here in NM, and they sometimes cause us trouble. Surveyors back then used a knotted rope, and frequently the total land allegedly "inside" the grant is too big for the total land involved. So depending on which side a modern surveyor starts on, somebody doesn't have any land. Lots of Spanish land grant holders here have joined together to form corporations so they can sell the whole thing together as a group, otherwise, nobody could sell and none of the land could be developed. Other land grants specify they may never be sold, so there are whole towns where land can be passed along but never sold. In old Spain, if you weren't a land owner, you could be either a soldier, a settler to the new world, or a priest. Great choices.

Cheif Humor live on !

Ship ashore is north of Big Chiefs home and south of Brookings. Interesting little gift shop when you're a kid!