Entitled "North Carolina: Variety Vacationland" the placemat is a map of the state. Various nuggets of history and trivia adorn the map. It is further embellished with a number of icons that relate to different regions; a powder horn near Boone, the Wright Brothers Memorial next to Kill Devil Hills, you get the picture. So, here's the rub. West of Asheville, north of Bryson City is an image I cannot, for the life of me, identify.
What is that!!!
Many a late night order of cheese fries and gravy has arrived at the table to find me, my dinning companions, the freakin' people from the next booth, staring at this little corner in western North Carolina, debating over the identity of that *thing*. I have heard many knee-jerk explanations like "it's an airplane". Frankly, I'm not impressed. That thing is CLEARLY not a plane, nor a bird, nor a hang glider(!).My best guess, GUESS, is that it is a Native American (note feather on headband) waist deep in water (note ripple effect distorting lower limbs) holding some kind of...log? under his arm. Yeah...right.
Observe other images on the placemat:
They are hand drawn, rudimentary, and some, the object of questionable artistic license (the Civil War soldier appears to be slumped over, impaled on a bloody pike). They are, however, clear and obvious representations of actual things from this planet.
So I offer it to you, Charlotteans. What is that *thing*? Post your answer here (in comments).
I ask that you use only your keen sense of observation and your artistic eye. In other words, don't contact the NC Travel and Tourism Division who generated this piece of Americana (rather, Caroliniana).
Good Luck
I ask that you use only your keen sense of observation and your artistic eye. In other words, don't contact the NC Travel and Tourism Division who generated this piece of Americana (rather, Caroliniana).
Good Luck
