Today is Paul Bunyan Day

Paul Bunyan was a gigantic lumberjack of American Folklore. According out folklore, Paul Bunyan and his blue ox "Babe" lived and travelled around country. He is best known for his logging feats.

Paul Bunyan is "credited" with many deeds. Among his more legendary feats:

• He created logging in the U.S.
• He scooped out the great lakes to water Babe, his ox.
• He cleared the entire states of North and South Dakota for farming.
• He trained ants to do logging work. They were, of course, Carpenter Ants.
• Babe's large footprints created Minnesota's 10,000 lakes.

• Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox are statues of both Bunyan and Babe in Bemidji, Minnesota. Other statues exist in Brainerd, Minnesota; Westwood, California; Del Norte County, California; St. Ignace, Michigan, Ossineke, Michigan; and in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
• Paul Bunyan Land, an amusement park 7 miles (11 km) east of Brainerd, Minnesota, features a talking statue of Paul with a statue of Babe (its original Baxter location was cleared in 2003 to make room for new commercial development). There are two other (smaller, non-talking) statues located in Brainerd.
• Trees of Mystery, a roadside attraction in Klamath, California, features a 49 ft (15m) tall statue of Bunyan and a 35 ft (10m) tall statue of Babe. Also features carvings and characters from storys of Paul. As of November 20th, 2007, the statue of Babe was headless, owing to rain and old, rotted materials giving way and the head falling off.[3]

• The State of Michigan has designated Oscoda, Michigan as the official home of Paul Bunyan due to the earliest documented publications in the Oscoda Press, August 10, 1906 by James MacGillivray (later revised and published in the Detroit News in 1910).[4]
• Statues of Bunyan (alone) exist in Old Forge, New York; Akeley, Minnesota; Tucson, Arizona; Woodruff, Wisconsin; Bangor, Maine; Rumford, Maine; Oscoda, Michigan; a recently moved pair of statues sit in Ossineke, Michigan with a neutered Babe the Blue Ox[5],Portland, Oregon; St. Maries, Idaho; Shelton, Washington; Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin; Aline, Oklahoma; and also on top of a Vietnamese restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• A statue depicting Bunyan's wife can be found in Hackensack, Minnesota. Her name is Lucette
• Bunyan is depicted on the world's largest wood carving, at the entrance to Sequoia National Park in California.