Here’s a true outsider artist (Times Leader)

By SHANE GRABER St. Louis-Post-Dispatch SALEM, Ill. — Richard Pollard stood in his back yard, beaming brightly like his special crop. It is, after all, one of his finest works, he said. “Everybody’s yard ought to be like this.” A front-yard sign saying “Agricultural Test Plot” points to the crop in back. Pollard, 73, started it in 2000 — in the spring, of course — and it took nine months to complete. He now has 337 bright, shiny chrome bumpers planted ...