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Georgia town claims scarecrow record
Hoschton City Clerk Kristen Smith said the town got some outside help creating 4,800 straw men, women and even deer. She told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution people from other towns built scarecrows and brought them to Hoschton.
"It's the coolest thing," she said.
Robbie Bettis, the organizer of the effort, spent Tuesday recording the results, tagging and photographing the scarecrows lining State Highway 53, the main road in town, as well as tree-lined subdivision streets. The scarecrows represent a cross-section of straw humanity, dressed as everything from prisoners to ministers.
Bettis's goal was 4,000 scarecrows, which would have been more than enough to beat the record set in 2003 by the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, 3,311. Hoschton, in a rural area east of Atlanta with a population of about 1,700 within the city limits and 4,800 in its zip code, is a lot smaller than Cincinnati.
The town and Bettis will not know for several weeks whether the Guinness Book of World Records recognizes its achievement.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 09/03/2008
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10-21-2008 11:58
The Green Sisterhood wrote:
We, the sisterhood, travling along Hwy 53 saw the town of scarecrows. We had to turn around and look at all them. This was amazing!! We just couldn't believe that that many people would participate in something, bringing a town together. We did not know what it represented, it was a Sun. evening and no stores along this main street was open to stop and ask anyone but I came home and found it on line. Contgratulations to the town. We were very impressed and thoroughly entertained. It was, stick people dressed like everything from the pharmacist to the auto mechanic. Well worth a trip just to see..How long will the stick people be left out?
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