Here’s an awesome view, but where is it and why might it be significant? Send your name, hometown and guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery, “Bench and park,” showed a bronze statue in a Summerville park, as related by Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas: “Today’s mystery photo is of the bronze, life-sized sculpture called “The Garden” by Savannah-native sculptor Susie Chisholm.
“The sculpture is located in Hutchinson Square in downtown Summerville. It was installed in April 2007 as a permanent part of Summerville’s Sculpture in the South, a project created in 1999 to ‘…promote the creation of an accessible public sculpture collection that enhances the Summerville community.’’
Peel got bonus points for identifying the subject of the statue as Polly Chisholm Wylly Brooks (1914-2014) from Isle of Hope, Georgia, who was the sculptor’s aunt. “Chisholm wanted to create a sculpture that captured the essence of a true “Southern belle,” and quickly realized that her Aunt Polly fit the bill perfectly. Furthermore, Chisholm wanted the subject to look as if she had just come from her garden, so she had Brooks pose for her several times, sitting in an antique rocking chair with a gardening hat and flowers in her lap.”
Others who identified the statue and/or its location were: Michael Webb of Hartsville, Nancy Barksdale, Elizabeth Jones and Jay Altman, all of Columbia; Pat Keadle of Perry; Daniel Prohaska of Summerville; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Jacie Godfrey and Barry Wingard, both of Florence; and Lester Dempsey.
- Send us a mystery picture. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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