Roadside Graffiti in Newbury, New Hampshire, Mysteriously Repainted Many Times Since the 70’s

If you’ve ever found yourself driving on Route 103 heading up to Sunapee for a little Summer swimming or Winter skiing, you have most likely driven by a piece of New Hampshire history and you mostly likely thought to yourself, “what the heck does that mean?” Newbury, New Hampshire, is a small town with a population of a little over 2,000 people but this rock is one that is familiar to hundreds and thousands of people, from New Hampshire and beyond. According to NHPR, this graffiti has inspired additional art! There’s been a movie made about it, poems written, sermons given, songs and bumper stickers. Newbury also hosts “the chicken farmer 5K race” every Summer. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a race held in their little town named after the chicken farmer. So who exactly was this Chicken Farmer? According to Atlas Obscura, local legend has it the original message: “Chicken Farmer, I love you.” was written on the rock sometime in the late 1980s (some reports claim as early as the 1970s) by a shy teenage boy. He apparently had the hots for a young schoolgirl who lived on the small chicken farm across the street from the...