BILLBOARD FOLKART — Among their other duties, Secret Caverns’ tour guides are responsible for painting the attraction’s billboards. They got creative following a severe windstorm in the mid-1980s that damaged many oof the old, black-and-white signs. Top is the young author Dana Cudmore at the start of a billboard at the caverns’ entrance lodge. At left, a sign shared by both caves; at right one along Route 7 east of Cobleskill. Below, an early version showing the “caveman.” Their are about 30 of these colorful billboards that dot the landscape on the way to the cave.

SEE THIS MONTH’S BLOG POST, UNDERGROUND ARTISTS: Who Paints Those Secret Caverns Billboards, Anyway?

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