Thursday, October 4, 2012

Tin horses draw crowds to Australia's most colorful bush festival

by Ian Lloyd Neubauer

What to do about Mary?

Some 20 years ago, that was the question on the lips of everyone in the Western Australian town of Kulin.

Second-generation wheat farmer Mary Lucchesi had begun asking friends and neighbors to pitch in and build humorous tin sculptures of horses on the road leading from town to her front yard. Yes, metal horses.

She?d envisioned the sculptures would help promote the annual Bush Races -- Kulin?s biggest social event -- hosted every October by the Lucchesis on their property 280 kilometers east of Perth.

Lo and behold, her vision came true.

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Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/IPWUmpURnRA/tin-horses-draw-crowds-australias-most-colorful-bush-festival-121816

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