Wednesday, October 23, 2024

"For the Tenth Time, Take a Left at the Chicken!"

Outside of my early polling place is this:

This is very Athens, and makes the place easy to find.

Now, it isn't as famous as another Georgia chicken:


This is in Marietta, juuuusssst on the edge of Atlanta.  You can see it from the interstate, and it is known simply as The Big Chicken.  It's a landmark, as in, "Take the second exit past the Big Chicken." 

Thank you for listening to today's lesson on Georgia lore.

2 comments:

Delighted Hands said...

We have always enjoyed the many LARGE such markers throughout the state~ These are new to me; very fun.

Araignee said...

That is a BIG chicken!

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