National Park Service rangers scoured the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in recent weeks,...
National Park Service rangers scoured the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in recent weeks, bolt cutters in hand, and took aim at their targets. Hanging from fences were love locks, etched with the names or initials of partners who, perhaps, had seen the vast, everlasting expanse of mudstone beyond the precipice and believed that their love, too, would be as endless. Except the padlocks these visitors had placed were not emblems of passion but simply human-made litter, officials said.
It was once believed that the origins of love locks dated back at least 100 years to a Serbian World War I tale involving the love of a young schoolteacher in the town of Vrnjacka Banja for a soldier who was about to go to the front. But there is not much research backing that account, said Ceri Houlbrook, a professor of folklore at the University of Hertfordshire in England who has researched and written a book on the history of love locks.
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