Doctor grudge sparked 15-year graffiti spree?

The Glens Falls Post-Star has one of the weirder, more intriguing stories I’ve seen in a while on their website.

It chronicles the 15-year history of a particular graffiti tag — “rowlow” — that’s been turning up on walls and fences around the region.

A local doctor has long ascribed the tagging to another physician involved in a feud at the Glens Falls Hospital. Dr. Frank Rollo told the newspaper that “rowlow” was a reference to his name.

According to the Post-Star, he may have been right.

[Dr. Kenneth] Hopper, 70, of Chester, had been arrested a day earlier when a Warren County sheriff’s officer on patrol spotted him spray painting “rowlow” on a Lake George highway overpass.

My opinion?

The doctor shortage is so severe in the North Country that if Dr. Hopper wants to scrawl nonsense words on random objects we should buy him some spray cans and put him back to work.