Commemorating Small Wonder State innovation and featuring native Pierre S. DuPont (Wilmington) modeling nylons (his most popular invention).

Commemorating Keystone State Creativity and featuring pop artist Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh) and cartoonist R. Crumb (Philadelphia).

Commemorating Beauty and the Boss State stalwarts Miss America (Atlantic City) and Bruce Springsteen (Long Branch).

Commemorating long-gone Peach State windbags Rhett Butler (Covington) and Scarlett O'Hara (Jonesboro).

Commemorating Nutmeg State Musicians and featuring native Richard and Karen Carpenter (New Haven). Other notable Nutmeggers include John Mayer (Fairfield), Mar McGrath (Hartford) and Moby (Darien).

Commemorating the Bay State inventor (and Boston University Professor) Alexander Graham Bell's first phone call to his assistant Thomas A. Watson (Salem).

Commemorating the Free Stater independence of transgressive cult filmmaker John Waters (Baltimore) and counterculture character actor Glenn "Divine" Milstead (Baltimore).

Commemorating Palmetto State conflict and controversy and featuring William Tecumseh Sherman (visitor from the north) and Strom Thurmond (Edgefield).

Commemorating the Granite State as prime summer camp territory for East Coast kids.

Commemorating Old Dominion power and political passion by featuring pulpiteers Pat Robertson (Lexington) and Jerry Falwell (Lynchburg).

Commemorating the Empire State's Stature in American Popular Culture and featuring Funny Girl Barbra Streisand (Brooklyn).

Commemorating the Tar Heel State's small-town character and featuring Andy Griffith (Mount Airy).

Commemorating the dowdy spinster common to the Ocean State, and featuring native Ruth Buzzi (Westerly) as Gladys Ormphby. 

Commemorating the Green Mountain State sweet treats and featuring a Stowe Mountain Boy holding two Ben & Jerry's ice cream cones while skiing between two maple trees.

Commemorating Blue Grass State culinary delights and featuringNorth Corbin restaurateur Colonel Sander's ubiquitous bucket of southern fried hospitality.

Commemorating Volunteer State engineering and style and featuring the tonsorial manifestation of Tennessee Valley Authority's hydropower program in the Tennessee Waterfall – America's most popular hairstyle.

Commemorating Buckeye State Equal Rights and featuring Toledo's toughest Crusader for women's right to change their own flat tires (from Akron-based Goodyear).

Commemorating Bayou State culinary delights and featuring New Orleans native Bryant Gumbel presenting a heaping bowl of Seafood Gumbo.

Commemorating Hoosier State yokel domestic furnishings and featuring the mobile home seen at nearly every corner of "The Crossroads of America."

Commemorating Magnolia State Literacy and featuring Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner – shown reading his novel Sartoris while holding it upside down (as is the custom of Mississippi school children).

Commemorating the Land of Lincoln gift of gab and greenery by featuring Chicago's "Queen of All Media" Oprah Winfrey atop John Deere's Ride-on Lawn Mower (Moline).

Commemorating Yellowhammer State Cotton and Critters by featuring the pesky Boll-Weevil wearing Baker Hosiery's Sport-N-Play All-Cotton Crews (Fort Payne).

Commemorating The Pine Tree State inclination to irascibility by featuring a Salty Old Crust riding high on the world's heaviest crustacean, the North American Lobster –or as Vacationlanders call it, "The Maine Lobster."

Commemorating Show Me State wwagger and featuring talk radio bloviator Rush Limbaugh (Cape Girardeau) and brassy actress Shelley Winters (St. Louis) sharing a Precious Moment (Carthage) .

Commemorating the Natural State's natural state and featuring "Land of Opportunity" opportunist Bill Clinton (Hope) chasing beautiful Daisy Mae Yokum, née Scragg (Harrison), through Dogpatch, USA.

Commemorating Mitten State mobility and featuring the famous automobiles of America's (once-apon-a-time) "Big Three" manufacturers – Model T (Ford),  Chevy Bel Air (General Motors) and Dodge Caravan (Chrysler).

Commemorating Sunshine State diversity and featuring the fathers of Miami's mass migration (Fidel Castro) and Orlando's capitalist response (Walt Disney).

Commemorating Lone Star State proficiency in using capital punishment to control crime and featuring "Old Sparky." the electric chair used at the state prison (Huntsville) until 1964 (when the state switched over to death by injection).

Commemorating Hawkeye State husbandry and abundance and featuring a huge hog munching its way through a state that seems to be entirely made of soybeans, corn and oats.

Commemorating Badger State manufacturing and featuring beer, cheese and brats – the three comfort foods necessary to provide stored energy sources needed by Wisconsinite bodies to survive their bitter-cold winters.

Commemorating Golden State popularity and personal freedom and featuring the traffic jams which drive the wealthy to live in other states.

Commemorating North Star State humor and hugeness, and featuring the favorite colossal attractions of Chief Mon-Si-Moh (Thief River Falls), Henry the Giant Squirrel (Brainerd) and Lucette Diana Kensack (Hackensack) – which share the roadside with the Jolly Green Giant (Blue Earth), Charlie Brown (St. Paul), Paul Bunyan and Babe the Big Blue Ox (Bemidji).

Commemorating Beaver State anti-social stoicism and featuring the popular warning that graces billboards, highway signs and doormats from Astoria to Jordan Valley.

Commemorating Sunflower State weather and wonder and featuring the funnel cloud that swept Dorothy – and Toto, too – away to the Land of Oz.

Commemorating Mountain State coal mining and featuring the coal miners who work tirelessly to remove the state's mountains.

Commemorating Silver State sluts and slots and featuring Lounge Lizards Don Ho, Liberace and Debbie Reynolds as the fruits represented on the face of slot machine.a "One-Armed-Bandit."

Commemorating Cornhusker State weekend recreation and featuring a fisherman's camper parked at one of the 12,000 camping sites that line Lake McConaughy.

Commemorating the Centennial State's sky-high cost of living and featuring every visitor's favorite scenic wonder, the "Real Estate For Sale" sign.

Commemorating the Flickertail State's spirit of refinement and harmonious living, and featuring "Champagne Music Maker" Lawrence Welk.

Commemorating Mount Rushmore love of freedom and adventureand featuring a "biker" and his "old lady" at the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

Commemorating the Treasure State's national ranking as for the greatest population of college-educated residents who work for minimum-wage and featuring a Ph.D. recipient serving cocktails at Poor Henry's Bar during the Montana Testicle Festival (Clinton).

Commemorating Evergreen State high-minded fussiness and featuring a steaming Starbucks cup of corporate coffee culture.

Commemorating Gem State Potato Heads Helen Chenoweth, Mark Fuhrman, Randy Weaver, Bruce Wills, Sarah Palin, Brandi Sherwood, Picabo Street and Martha Raddatz.

Commemorating Cowboy State myth and mischievousness and featuring the world-famous portmanteau pet invented by a hunter and taxidermist and popularized at a tourist hotel in Douglas.

Commemorating Beehive State industry and breeding patterns and featuring A typical Brigham with his Hannah, Naomi, Ruth and Sarah

Commemorating Sooner State enterprise and escape and featuring the gifts of God, Gas and Grog.

Commemorating Land of Enchantment mystery and history and featuring an alien from Roswell portrayed as a native woman in the Fluid forms of Navajo painter R.C. Gorman.

Commemorating Grand Canyon State recognition of air conditioning technology and featuring the unit that makes living in this hell-hole possible.

Commemorating The Last Frontier for heterosexual women and features the numerous bachelors available to every lady who is comfortable tanning hides and gutting fish.

Commemorating the seductive call of Aloha State paradise and featuring a hunky ukulele-playing Hawaiian in a grass skirt riding a wave into Waikiki.

Commemorating the "Hollywood for Ugly People" city dilemma of a residents paying Federal Income taxes, but not receiving representation in the United States Congress.