Bucky The Tile Town Beaver

January 1, 2019 10:41 am Published by

Bucky the Tile Town Beaver #3

East  of Rectory, on the south side,  across the street from the Hamilton Road Animal Hospital’s “Pet Pole”

Bucky the Tile Town Beaver was the third in our Tree Trunk Tour and another tipping point in our plans for something more significant.  We had to get our business community on the side and this was the first one that was actually sponsored by a business, a crucial step.  Tile Town bought into the concept and their vision and faith in our plan were crucial to its genesis.

The sculptor would was Robbin Wenzoski from Robbin’s Amazing Art and he carved this out of a solid Black Oak.  This would be the third one he had done for us.   The idea was to have these sculptures reference the business, in an overt/subtle fashion and we worked with the owners to come up with a plan to have a large Canadian Beaver,  working on a tree stump he has cut off, and putting tiles up on the side of it with a trowel.

Tile Town went out of their way to fix up the aesthetics around this sculpture with grass and decorative stone.  They got rave reviews and letters from the public of how nice the new front looked, which was another collateral effect of the Tree Trunk Tour that we had not anticipated.

Wood: Black Oak

Poured concrete bases were used initially

Installed Sept. 2012

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