I’ve been passing through Thomasville, North Carolina, most all of my life. As a child, it was around the halfway point on the trip to visit my grandparents.
Stretching my little five-year-old neck out of the passenger side window of Momma’s ‘69 Camaro to see the Big Chair, I always marveled at how someone was able to build that thing, let alone climb up to have a seat in it.
Seems I can recall my grandfather telling me that Santa Claus had a hand in building it so he could have a place to rest on Christmas eve.
He had a talent for making a “tall-tale” sound believable… and I never doubted him.
Even though my grandparents and Momma have passed on, as has that beloved vehicle, I still find myself taking the old way through downtown Thomasville on the way to visit the cemetery. It feels like a step back in time – old storefronts still much the same as I remember, and those wonderful train tracks that jostle you silly as you cross them.
It’s even more exciting when your trip is paused for a few minutes, as a passing train makes its way through town. For that moment, time stands still.
And I look over at the Big Chair and wonder if Santa still makes his rest stop there.
The artwork you’ve seen here is available on my Etsy shop in an assortment of prints and notecards.
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