Old McFalls (Mechanic Falls, Maine) Hand-painted Directional Sign interesting spoon Captains Crosby and Captain Taylor

Captains Crosby and Captain Taylor

as if one might store a little something inside

and one very small hole in the pith paper

Solid wood with litho printing I believe

Old McFalls (Mechanic Falls, Maine) Hand-painted Directional Sign interesting spoon Captains Crosby and Captain TaylorThe way my mind works, this old McFalls arrow sign made me think about the ubiquity of "falls" of all sorts, literal and proverbial McFalls, like McMansions, etc.) and I really love how rather than miles at the arrow end there are now just black paint drips, as if McFalls had fallen off the map, and also itself sort of evincing the gesture of a fall. The McFalls in question is in fact Mechanic Falls, a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, which is near