Last week I received a call from Jay-Paul Thibault, chair of the Nassau County Democratic Executive Committee. They needed volunteers to raise a 20-foot Obama sign.
Wait, 20 feet?
I come from Virginia, home of the Shad Planking, the annual sign war in a clearing in Wakefield to end all sign wars. This is a typical example from my last visit in 2009. It would take a lot to impress me.
Yes, it was suitably impressive. There is now a ridiculously-sized Obama sign facing State Road 200. I held on to these photos for a couple days out of mild superstition that the sign would come down…it’s stayed up. Watch the sign-raising (the modern-day equivalent to the barn-raising, I suppose) in the photos below!
