Yard art and hand dug well in Kansas

Yard Art

We turned off a road where we discovered hanging on a fence and sticking up in a field the art of  M.T. Ligget of Mullinsville, Kansas. The pieces are made from cut up scraps of metal and old car parts. They are labeled with political scatology and what ever struck M.T's fancy. Later riding through Greensburg, Kansas, we talked to the lady who runs the Big Well attraction. When I asked about M.T. the woman replied with passion that M.T., whose cousin married the woman's son, is a son-of-bitch. She and everybody else in the town regards M.T. and his opinions as shit. He says he is one of the eight wonders of Kansas.

  

 

 

 

 

Hand Dug Well

 

 

Started in 1887 and finished in 1932 this is the largest hand dug well in the world. The well is 109 feet deep and 32 feet wide. The stairs stops above the bottom. The water is 10 feet deep. It is so clear you can't tell how deep - it is damp and cool. The well is located outside of Greensburg Kansas. In May 2007 95% of the down was wiped out by a tornado.

 

Maybe the strangest story - like all stories about people.  This one was told by the docent. She is a heavily wrinkled but still attractive woman who used to run a bar with she and her husband, When I asked if she knew the guy who did the yard art in the next town over, she got a stern look on her face and said she knows the old son-of-a-bitch. It appears that M.T. is the town's character who enjoys enraging his neighbors. One Church celebration and fried toy cannon from his lot across. To make it worse, the woman's son married M.T.'s niece.