Howard

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Atlas ObscuraJul 16, 2026

Hubbell Rubbell in Howard, Kansas

The small grass lot along Highway 99 is packed with Jerry Hubbell's welded folk-art creatures, a whole menagerie built from farm equipment, scrap metal, and whatever else he had lying around. The cowboy, the dinosaur, the tin man, the giant insect and the pig in glasses all sharing space in this rusty universe. Jerry Hubbell was a rancher who learned welding only to repair farm implements, then…

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