This edition’s Mystery Photo is of a recently-completed terra-cotta statue. Your job is to tell us where it is, and what it signifies. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
That Mystery Photo aerial view of a pond with an island in the shape of an airplane stumped all but the most eagle-eyed last week. Only George Graf of Palmyra, Va. and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. recognized the mystery.
Peel wrote: “It is an aerial shot of the 20-acre retention pond near the Charleston International Airport in North Charleston, S.C. The pond was built by the Boeing Company, one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world. It serves as a baffle and collection pond for incoming storm waters. Measuring over 1,400-feet long by 550-feet wide, the pond is about 15 football fields in size. It can hold the same amount of water as 100 Olympic-size swimming pools. The land mass that juts out into the pond looks like a jet airplane and is huge … 1.5-acres in size. Locally, the retention pond is known as “The Plane Pond” and air passengers departing from, or arriving at, the Charleston Airport get the best view of the feature from the air.”
The bright red leaves on the maple trees at the Lawrenceville Library headquarters in Lawrenceville are about gone these days. But the bright reds in this photo by Roving Photographer Frank Sharp sparkle with color.
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