First Stop: Gi-Normous Globe, Wellesley, MA

We stayed local but acted global for our first stop on the Weird New England Tour. This is not the biggest rotating globe in the world. Oh, and by the way: it no longer rotates. But it is certifiably the Onetime Biggest Once-Rotating Globe, erected in 1955, now surpassed by Big Rotating Globes in places like Oklahoma, Maine, and Pesaro, Italy. No matter. This Onetime Biggest Once-Rotating Globe is ours. And it IS sort of rotating, by virtue of the fact that the Earth on which it is propped is rotating. You have to admit, that's a good point.

Enormous Globe, Babson College. Nicholas
doing his Atlas impression; Louis showing the page
of "Weird New England" where this globe appears.