Here’s a colorful scene. Where is it? What is it? Send your name, hometown and guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com. Next week we’ll provide the source and credit information
Last week’s mystery, “Outdoor scene,” showed a bronze statue called “The Gardener” in Blowing Rock Memorial Park along Main Street in Blowing Rock, N.C. Thanks to Thomas Jacobsen of Sitka, Alaska, for sending the photo.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, provided quite a bit of information on the statue, which he said “was created by Alexander Michael Hallmark (1949–2021), a member of the National Sculpture Society who was born in Danville, Illinois, but lived much of his adult life in Blowing Rock. The statue was commissioned by Blowing Rock Garden Club and dedicated in August 2006. The figure represents the garden club members who have lovingly tended to the Memorial Park since the club was established in 2001.”
Only four others identified the statue: Pat Keadle of Perry; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; and Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones, both of Columbia.
- 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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I thought this was SC. Why NC statue?
first time outside of state, but it’s close to the line so I figured what the hell.