Grammar vigilantes
Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 12:14
They had removed an extraneous apostrophe and added a comma to the sign.
Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson pleaded guilty for the damage done earlier this year at the park’s Desert View Watchtower.
The sign was made by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, the architect who designed the rustic 1930s watchtower and other Grand Canyon-area landmarks.
Deck and Herson, both 28, toured the US this spring, wiping out errors on government and private signs.
The National Park Service learned of the vandalism from an internet site operated by Deck on behalf of the Typo Eradication Advancement League, or Teal.
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