Impressive Graffiti

[PaddlingPitt]

Somewhere there's a fuzzy line. What makes one signature carved in stone historic and another defacement? Is it only a matter of time or what the person who carved it went on to do with their life? I find it hard to think of Samuel Hearne's signature as being grafiti but is it really any different than all the other people who carve their name and date in order to say "I was here"?



Alan

Alan,

Kathleen and I visited this site when we were in Churchill. We took the same image. We considered it historic. Never thought graffiti. But if someone had painted their name alongside Sam’s in 1997, we would have been incensed!