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Fabyan's Folly
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This is an open edition print. Canvas prints have a 2 inch black border so it can be gallery wrapped. The print is made using pigmented inks on museum-grade canvas or watercolor paper. Each print also gets a light coating of lacquer protective spray. Each print is hand signed by Brian DeWolf. When Colonel Fabyan wanted to build a bridge across the Fox River joining his properties on both sides, the state of Illinois insisted that it must meet criteria for spanning a navigable waterway. The colonel didn’t see any sense in that since a series of dams obstructed the river every few miles and in the dry months it was about waist deep in the channel. About the only things that “navigated” the Fox were canoes and wading fishermen.
People wonder why there is a lighthouse on the Fox River. Colonel Fabyan built it as a sarcastic edifice to the State’s opinion. Today it still pretends to warn ships that have never navigated the Fox, nor ever will.
People wonder why there is a lighthouse on the Fox River. Colonel Fabyan built it as a sarcastic edifice to the State’s opinion. Today it still pretends to warn ships that have never navigated the Fox, nor ever will.

