Taming the ravenous boll weevil
In Enterprise, Ala., the South's most famous memorial to the blasted weevil stands. In 1919, as the bug decimated cotton fields, enterprising townsfolk realized their community needed to diversify its economy. So they erected the Boll Weevil Monument -- in "profound appreciation of the Boll Weevil and what it has done as the herald of prosperity." AP/File
