Largest Zipper in North America — Attraction in Barre City

No "frank and beans" here, World's Largest Granite Zipper Sculpture (according to the World Record Academy) includes perennials ready to be zipped up. It is built of blocks of native granite with the zipper extends along the ground for 74 feet down this narrow alley. Artist Chris Miller named it "Unzipping the Earth," and has planted the flowers.

For scale, it would need to be attached to a 450-foot-long pair of pants but no trousers are here. It is next to the Studio Place Arts building here in Barre (aka Granite City). The pocket park is open 24 hours but is not lit at night. The Vermont Granite...

Not the largest zipper. For a thing to be a zipper, it has to be able to zip, or formerly have been able to zip, or perhaps be able to zip in the future. This cannot does not fall into any of those categories. It may be North America’s largest depiction of a zipper made of rocks, but it is not in fact, an actual zipper. It is in fact quite zipper-looking though, so I give it two stars. Would that art were actually so, but alas, in these interminable days where beauty is esteemed and recognized as little as prudence or wisdom, what ought one expect? Considering that, this is...

listen. i’m a little disappointed by this, mostly because i thought it was gonna be a) metal, b) more upright, and c) just bigger. ngl it’s pretty long but the zipper head itself—as in, the most iconic part of the zipper, is no bigger than a pair of folded dungarees! well ok then. would recommend driving a bit further to ben and jerry’s in waterbury and grabbin some ice cream to go tbh. the hoodies in their gift shop have zippers too, and those boys are metal and...