The Girl in Acid Park
“A fifteen minute drive from Millroad Catholic Academy, between pines growing close as the bristles on a hairbrush, is a sharp bend in the road. On the outside curve is a repair shop, which flanks the fantastical memorials locals call Acid Park.
Back in the sixties, a girl on her way back from prom missed her driveway and wrapped her VW Van around the tree beside her dad's roadside repair shop. She made it out of the wreck, but died in the undergrowth ten feet away, her dress a bloody cobweb of ...tulle between the rhododendrons.
Her father left the van as a warning, but it wasn't enough. In his grief, he erected an eerie memorial among the trees where she died. He suspended sheets of aluminum or tin to throw back headlights and warn drivers of the bend in the road, then used his mountain of accumulated scrap to build enormous, pinwheel-like structures he called whirligigs.
The first piece was a weather-vane, studded with bicycle reflectors and mounted on an old basketball hoop, sunk into the ground between the rhododendrons where he'd found his girl that terrible morning.MoreLess
Back in the sixties, a girl on her way back from prom missed her driveway and wrapped her VW Van around the tree beside her dad's roadside repair shop. She made it out of the wreck, but died in the undergrowth ten feet away, her dress a bloody cobweb of ...tulle between the rhododendrons.
Her father left the van as a warning, but it wasn't enough. In his grief, he erected an eerie memorial among the trees where she died. He suspended sheets of aluminum or tin to throw back headlights and warn drivers of the bend in the road, then used his mountain of accumulated scrap to build enormous, pinwheel-like structures he called whirligigs.
The first piece was a weather-vane, studded with bicycle reflectors and mounted on an old basketball hoop, sunk into the ground between the rhododendrons where he'd found his girl that terrible morning.MoreLess
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