Gribblenation

Wherever you travel around the planet, you are bound to find some roadside oddities along the way. Sometimes it may be something interesting that has meaning to the town or city that you are passing through, or it may be the world's largest item of that kind. In New York State, there are plenty of roadside oddities to see as you travel the highways and byways of the Empire State. These are a few of their stories... If you are traveling on US 11, NY 58 or NY 812 in northern New York State, you may drive through  Gouverneur , located in western St. Lawrence County. The town and village were named after  Gouverneur Morris , who was a signatory of the Articles of Confederation. As you drive through the downtown area of Gouverneur, you are probably wondering why there is a giant metal replica of a roll of  Life Savers . Life Savers owes its success to a native of Gouverneur,  Edward John Noble , who made his fortune as an owner of the Life Savers Candy Company. The giant ...

  On an island filled with beaches and lighthouses, the Cedar Island Lighthouse near Sag Harbor in the Hamptons may be one of the more unique and historic lighthouses on Long Island. While it doesn't have the cachet of the more famous Montauk Point Lighthouse, a lighthouse at Cedar Island has been very instrumental in helping guide whaling ships and other mariners going to and from the port at Sag Harbor since 1839. The current lighthouse at Cedar Island with its granite exterior was constructed in 1868 and decommissioned in 1934. As a result the Hurricane of 1938, a sandbar formed and the three acre island was now connected to Long Island by a narrow spit of land. In 1967, the Suffolk County Parks Department purchased both the lighthouse and the surrounding land, making it part of the 605 acre Cedar Point County Park. The Cedar Island Lighthouse has had its fair share of interesting stories and tragedies throughout the years. One interesting story involved a Ced...