From Breitbart/AP comes this story about an Aussie businessman’s proposed attempt to cash in on the big Stonehenge craze.
Pagans and druids, mark your calendars and book your airplane tickets. An Australian entrepreneur hopes to open a Stonehenge replica by the Dec. 21 solstice, just in time for New Age revelers.
“I’m doing it because I can,” said Ross Smith, the former owner of a successful microbrewery business who plans to build the monument on his property in Western Australia. “Nowhere in the world has a complete Stonehenge been built.”
Nowhere? What about at Stonehenge?
“I’ve studied plans of the original and that’s what The Henge will look like,” Smith said.
Unlike the original Stonehenge, guests will be encouraged to touch and play around the new monument, which will also have an interpretive center and a children’s playground.
Smith called The Henge “a business venture.” An entry fee will be charged and it will be hired out for weddings and other events.
He hopes his replica will attract 200,000 to 300,000 tourists per year to the Margaret River region, already renowned for fine wine, chocolate and cheese.
Just a gimmick to sell chocolate and cheese, that’s all. It’s sad when people choose not to treat these historical monuments with the proper respect. And, Ross Smith can say anything he wants, I guess. But, this isn’t an “original” concept. It’s been done before and done well. Dig.
“And, oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge.”
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Jayne d'Arcy wrote,
This is Spinal Tap! The greatest band that never lived! I’ll never forgive you and Jim for getting after me to watch this damned movie. The music contributed to my warpitude.
Oh, and that guy building Stonehenge II is an idiot.
Link | March 26th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Pribek wrote,
I actually saw Spinal Tap at a theater. I think that there was 30 people in there tops and most of them left. I was there with a musician buddy and we were laughing out loud.
Link | March 26th, 2008 at 3:51 pm