"ANOTHER VEHICLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE POPULAR, BUT I LIKE CRICKETS."
Argyle Gleason, Plymouth Cricket enthusiast
A Wickett County man who spent 30 years and thousands of dollars building Cricket World, a Stonehenge-like public monument to the Plymouth Cricket on his ten-acre farm, admitted failure and announced the site's permanent closing today.
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| Cricket World will close at the end of next month |
"Other people built monuments and sculptures with old Cadillacs, but I love the Cricket. I think it's the best car ever built," said Gleason, adding, "But I guess other people didn't feel the same way."
The 48-year-old Gleason hoped the profits gleaned from the $2.00 Cricket World admission fee would provide a comfortable retirement income for him and his wife Cora-Dora, who makes a few hundred dollars a year selling homemade badminton birdies on the internet.
But only a handful of visitors showed up each year, and most of those were motorists looking for a place to pull off the highway and urinate, said Gleason. "They just stopped by to pee."
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| Argyle Gleason becomes distraught while discussing the failure of his Cricket World monument. Up to this point, he was traught. |
"I guess I'll sell my Crickets to Donat, the local metal recycler," said Gleason as he fought back tears.
Editor's note: This is the first Parksplug article in which the world "gleaned" has appeared.
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