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ARTSCULTURE · HISTORICAL MARKER
Meet Morton!
Housatonic, Massachusetts
Historical Marker Database · William Fischer, Jr.
Arts & Culture
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Morton the Sea Monster, a fantastical thirty-foot creature, was inspired by the one created by artist Tony Sarg more than eighty-five years ago on Nantucket Island in the summer of 1937, a delightful hoax that became legendary.
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