In the Texas Hill Country: Stonehenge II, Electric Boogaloo.
The almost-life-size cement replica of England’s mystical Stonehenge monument is headed for a new home in Ingram, 70 miles northwest of San Antonio. That will be about ten minutes closer to the Alamo City than its current roost in Hunt.
Al Shepperd, a hotel owner who retired to the Hill Country, commissioned the work in 1989 and died five years later. Now his heirs want to sell the riverfront property on which it’s situated.
“We just feel like no one would want to buy it if they had to take the Stonehenge,” Al Shepperd II, a San Antonio lawyer whose family inherited the land, told the Associated Press.
So, the Hill Country Arts Foundation, where the senior Shepperd served as a director, accepted Shepperd’s donation of the mock monument, in addition to a pair of replica Easter Island heads also located at the site.
The foundation now is raising $50,000 to transport the stones to Ingram by the end of the summer. The heads have alread made the move.
We thought Missions Unknown readers would be interested in the relocation since the real Stonehenge has played a major role in more than a few SF and fantasy novels, Doctor Who episodes and classic heavy metal songs.
The AP reports that the Hill Country Stonehenge also has hosted its share of fantastic events: at least one wedding, a Mexican band shooting an album cover, a troupe of ballerinas and, not surprisingly, “Renaissance guys who like to beat each other with plastic swords.”
All the better, we say, that Stonehenge II will be that much closer to our strange town of San Antonio.
And for those who can’t get enough of the weirdness, the San Antonio Express-News has a nifty slideshow of the Easter Island heads being transported.
