Greg Cook journeyed to Plymouth today for the annual pre-Thanksgiving parade (he took the above photo and posts more).
Third Decade photographed Plymouth's famed little rock while on his first helicopter ride.
Copyright Third Decade.
Tourists who look at Plymouth Rock and go "Huh! That's it?" can now look up and see a hillside sign reading "Hollywood East."
The Plymouth Bulletin reports that Plymouth County Commissioners agreed (2-1) to put the sign in front of the town's 19th-century courthouse as a way of convincing tourists to walk up the hill to downtown Plymouth from the waterfront, no doubt in a desperate bid to shake off the cobwebs of ennui that envelope them as soon as they realize the Rock is really just a rock, and despite the fact that Plymouth is not yet actually Hollywood East, since developers have yet to build their movie studio in town, which means that if they do climb up the hill, all they're going to do is get really annoyed when they realize there's no movie stuff at the top, just another Ye Olde New Englande Towne.
UPDATE: The sign will be coming down after this weekend. Passions are aflame in Plymouth; veterans are outraged at "the lack of sensitivity" the sign shows a veterans' memorial at the site.
The World's Most Boring Tourist Attraction will be put in a box while the portico surrounding it is repaired. A suggestion: Paint a picture of the rock on the outside of the box. Nobody will even notice.
A Woburn resident claims she owns a chip off Plymouth Rock and is, of course, auctioning it off on eBay (and just in time for Thanksgiving, how thoughtful!). One argument in favor of the thing being real: It is incredibly boring, just like the actual Rock.
Via Ken, who files it under Scams.
Here's a photo in case you've forgotten just how truly boring Plymouth Rock is.
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