If you stand still long enough in Gloucester, a seagull will sit on your head!
This is the iconic image of Gloucester. The "Man At the Wheel" represents what Gloucester is all about. It's a landmark, an image and a tourist site. And, a bird rest!
A couple of year's ago the citizens of Massachusetts voted in a contest to put the image on the quarter to be issued for MA. However, the state or Governor or someone nixed it. I don't know why.
I'm not actually sure the title of Leonard Craske's statue is truly "Man At the Wheel". That's the name we who live here call him. He stands looking at out the harbor every day.
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