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-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of david G Orr
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:12 AM
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Subject: Re: Archaeology of a recluse

THere certainly is. There was Millard Tawes(wrote a book called
Creative Sculpture) from Maryland who put a two and a half ton
ferrocement diplodicus in his front yard (now sadly
gone) a 28foot hand hammered sheet aluminum American Eagle above
his garage and an 18 foot high statue of Chief Crazy Horse in
front of the dinosaur(sold and now in front of a restaurant
somewhere on the way to Rehobeth Beach in Delaware (i have
pictures if anyone needs them).When death claimed him in his late
eighties he was hard at work on a twenty foot high statue of the
emperor Constantine the Great(he did a wonderful wooden model of
it).

Incidentally the man who did the "Throne of the Third Heaven of
the Nations Milennium General Assembly" is James Hampton and has
to be seen to be believed. Talk about Grand design.
Portions of it were exhibited in The Museum of Fine Arts in
Washington D.C. (S.I.)(Is it still on exhibit?).It is pictured
and described in Elinor Lander Horowitz, Contemporary Folk
Artists. Lippincott: Philadelphia and New York, 1975.  pp.
127-132. Words fail me to describe this great masterpiece of
"environmental(?)" art. Hampton's immense effort was still
incomplete at his death. It was housed in a garage and
fortuitously saved.

dgorr