I ran across a pic of some Bernard Coffindaffer roadside crosses — if you’ve traveled the rural South much, you’ve likely seen them on occasion. He (1925–1993) was a West Virginia-based businessman/evangelist and this was his “Crosses of Mercy” project whereby he’d install one gold and two blue crosses. At one time it was estimated that there may be over 1000 of these, maybe even over 1500 installations, and people still to this day take on the task of restoring these utility poll crosses as needed in many locations.
Above in Money, Mississippi and these below in Edwards, Mississippi I spotted last year:
There’s a very nice book available for preview on Blurb of more of Bernard Coffindaffer’s project.