Happy Belated Earth Day!

The poet William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Well, how about in a thingamajig on top of a rusty metal fence in Edgemont Park in Montclair?

This globe—with its rusty oceans, flaking continents, meteor shower slashes, and sumo belt of an equator—makes an apt stand-in for our troubled own and does everything except rotate on its axis. Proving that no matter how myopic you may be, you can still take the large view.

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