Some northwoods fiberglass

Located next to the visitor information center on Wisconsin Highway 70 in St. Germain, Wisconsin. I could not find an ID tag on him so don't know if he's a F.A.S.T. product or not. I am assuming he's fairly old, probably late '50s or early 1960s, because the level of detail and the overall finish isn't as good as on more recent products.

According to various sources, there never was an actual Chief St. Germain. The statue is supposedly a tribute to the Native American heritage of the area, or at least that's the current explanation. The reality is that if it really were a tribute (or if the local Ojibwe had been consulted), Chief St. Germain would probably be wearing a shirt instead of looking like a stereotype straight out of a 1950s Saturday matinee Western.

Feeling old

I scanned another tray of my dad's slides recently. He took hundreds of slides starting sometime in the 1960s and continuing until he died in 1996. I bought a scanner with a slide attachment a couple years ago with the intention of scanning them all as soon as possible, but of course I didn't. It's a time consuming process, and I've never been noted for my patience.

It's been kind of an odd experience, going through the slides and realizing that at the time the Old Man took them, he was considerably younger than I am now.