This commentary attempts to make of a small offering of art as a brief respite from all the horrific news from the gulf coast.
Quick Background: Tired of waiting for any of the criminals to be “frog marched” out of the White House, we have been following another type of frog march — the march of frog statues honoring the not yet famous frog bridge in Willimantic. The frog statues are part of the 2005 Frog Leap festivities. We have been in a hunt to find each one.
These are the latest finds for anyone who is not bored with our quest.
The earlier frogs are in this commentary Frog Marching. And the first ones are in a diary at Booman Frog Marching for Booman.
This Doctor Frog is stationed inside the lobby of the hospital, and we wouldn’t have found it had it not been for a story in the newspaper. So I can’t really claim to have “discovered” him.
(Disclaimer #1: I have no connection with the frogfest. Disclaimer #2: I have made up my own names for the frogs, just to identify them.) More below.
The Frog Chief and The Patch Work Frog
The frog on the left also has Indian frogs in feathered headdresses painted around the spool base. This statue is stationed across from a strip mall on a grassy meriden.
This Patch Work Frog is stationed at the old Slater Mills on the banks of the Willimantic River Mill Pond. The Slater Mills and American Thread were once economic powers in this New England mill town.
American Thread is long gone, but its memory remains in the thread spools upon which the frogs sit and the renovated mills that now house artist studios, businesses, and other tenants.
Below is the Mill Frog, who is the first one of the frogs who is not painted, but a decoupage of photos of the Slater Mills. Sorry for the bigger photo, but it might be easier to see the detail of the mill parts. This guy is situated in front of the town offices.
Cross Posted at ePluribus Media Community site at Frog Marching Redux.