The really big stained glass crab at Baltimore-Washington International Airport

Wednesday, May 15, 2013


This handsome fellow is a 500-pound stained glass crab on display at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. In 1984 the state of Maryland commissioned Baltimore artist Jackie Leatherbury Douglass and her husband John to create a tourist attraction celebrating the Chesapeake blue crab, and the Douglass' spent a reported 5,500 hours assembling this unforgettable display. After John Waters and The Wire, this guy has my vote as the third greatest thing that ever came out of Baltimore.

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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden

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Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.

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