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Swetsville Zoo

Bill Swets, a former farmer, volunteer firefighter and insomniac, created a scrap-metal menagerie during his restless nights, a whimsical roadside curiosity. Swets’ creations are a coy lesson in creative recycling – everything from the grinning spider made from a VW bug to the heavy metal caricature of Monica Lewinsky.

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