The March 16 “Heard around the West” contained a lovely account of Boulder, Colorado’s gnome liberation movement. Somewhere out there is a gorgeous French movie showing a young lady kidnapping her father’s garden gnome and subsequently sending him photographs of his gnome in various exotic settings — Roman ruins, Golden Gate Bridge, rodeo arenas, etc. Boulder gnome-napper victims may be getting poems now, but there will be (so to speak) “Pictures at 11.”
We used to give lawn flamingoes to puzzled folks in selected neighborhoods — in particular the million-dollar teardowns of the nouveaux nouveaux. Tacky is the best revenge for pretension. St. Thorstein of Veblen informs to this day.
Elizabeth Harris
Evening Shade, Arkansas
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Gnome magnifique.
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