The world's largest bath toy?
One of the fun thing about covering the legislature is there are no shortage of folks coming in from the provinces to remind the honorables of the good work that this, that or the other nonprofit group is doing.
As I was heading to a House ethics committee meeting (more on that in a second) I saw what one might take for the world's largest bath toy.
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It's actually a model of the CSS Neuse, a Civil War era gunboat used by the Confederates. It currently resides in Lenoir County and according to a handy brochure I picked up, "is the only commissioned Confederate ironclad on display in the world."
Click here for more information on the boat.
The group that owns the boat has been seeking state funding for help buying a building to put the boat in. The House version of the budget that recently passed would set aside $500,000 for the group, but there is a long way to go before that becomes reality.
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