Joe Elmore

 

 

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      I went by Elmore’s Landing, at the foot of the bridge across 331 going to Freeport, but the gate was padlocked.

      There was a sign with a number to call for an appointment to see the paintings and sculpture.

      I asked Dwight the Potter, a fishing buddy Joe had encouraged to become an artist, or a craftsman—I used to see them at The Red Bar in Grayton Beach together—about it and he said Joe was in the hospital in Louisiana with liver cancer.

      They were big men, like tag-team wrestlers.  Joe had a ponytail and looked like a sumo wrestler.  Balder called him a Hawaiian.  He could have passed for a Samoan.  Or a Maori.

      Another roadside attraction, gone the way of Tom Gaskin’s Cypress Knee Museum in Palmdale.

      Was that this book or last book?

      So many books.  I get them confused.

      There is a statue of a buffalo out front carved from a single piece of redwood that is impressive.

 

 

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      I guess roadside chainsaw-sculptors are going the way of the buffalo.  Or the California redwood.

 


 

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