Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is the State Capital of The Commonweath of Pennsylvania.
A pretty important city in the whole scheme of the state, or so it would seem.
Harrisburg doesn’t have much in the way of tourist attractions. We have a baseball farm team called the Senators. We have a Civil War Museum. We have a small arts community, with some nice small music venues.
And we have our Mayor Stephen Reed. Mayor Reed is the longest serving Mayor of Harrisburg. He was first elected in 1981. During his term he has developed City Island,where the Senators play, and the Civil War Museum.
And then there are the wild west artifacts. Mayor Reed purchased a large number of western items for placement in a Wild West Museum. Which resulted in a large amount of negative outcry from the City Council, and from his constituents.
Recently it came to light that he had bought a warship called the Royal Savage. The unfortunate part is that this vessel belongs to the Federal government under the NAGPRA law, which essentially says any vessel used by the Navy is Federal property.
Mayor Reed tried to sell the ship a few years ago and was unable to.
But that isn’t the worst part. Mayor Reed has recently become the model for a booblehead doll. Yeah, you heard me correctly. The Mayor of the Capital of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a booblehead doll.
| Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed Bobblehead |
I shit you not.
