When a winter storm last December snapped a large pine tree in Don Cole’s front yard, he hired a chainsaw artist to turn the stump into a sculpture, ending up with a 10-foot-high pineapple that quickly became a local landmark.
Now, according to USA Today, the pineapple has become famous enough to pop as a tourist attraction on Google Maps as “Port Huron Pineapple Statue.” The tree’s fame started, according to Cole, when “Someone put it on Facebook,” Cole said. “There’s a Port Huron, Michigan, page, and it got over 1,600 likes and a bunch of comments. I haven’t had any negative comments, and kids really enjoy it.”
Some of Port Huron’s other claims to fame include being Thomas Edison’s boyhood home, the scene of Harry and Bess Truman’s honeymoon and the site of the conference that launched the Port Huron Statement and eventually Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s.
