The Westville Sesquicentennial Celebration does not start until August 19th, but some of the fun has already begun. The Westville Public Library is where you can find ‘Rocky’ the rock snake. The library placed a painted rock along a sidewalk portraying a snake’s head, and asked others to add painted rocks for its body. Anna Bacon is a clerk at the library…
{AUDIO: ”We’ve got one-hundred-and-fifty rocks out there for the Westville Sesquicentennial – which is one-hundred-fifty years. And so now we’re going to start a new one – called Rocketta — which is a female rock snake. And we’re going to have people come and add those.”
(Westville Public Library Clerk Anna Bacon.)
And they are not just adding painted rocks to the snakes. People have been painting rocks and hiding them around the Westville area. And Bacon says children and adults have been having fun finding the colorful rocks. So, what do you do if you find one?
{AUDIO: ”They can add it to the snake, or they can hide it anywhere. And then sometimes when they hide them and somebody else finds them, they go out there and add them to the snake themselves.”
(These rocks were found at Full Circle Resale in Westville.)
People have also been taking pictures of the Rocks and posting them on the Westville Rocks Facebook page. Friends of the Westville Library got the idea for the snake after seeing a post about one in another town.
The Westville Sesquicentennial Celebration – which celebrates the town’s 150th birthday – officially begins on August 19th. It runs through Labor Day, September 4h.
