wickham stone park ... the movie!

enoch tanner wickham portrait

This is a photographic portrait of Enoch Tanner Wickham taken in the late sixties by artist Ned Crouch.


I am a human man moulded of a divine hand, I am. Every wrinkle in me He doth know for He do be with making me so. Solitariness I have known ‘n must admit to it have I been prone. Yet, enjoy I to be on my own creating beings of the world be known. Being of a divine hand I am so, I am. -Richard of Eire

e.t. wickham, chief tecumseh and cd cover art

E.T. Wickham's Tecumseh statue stood over eight feet tall. With a cocked tomahawk and a war bonnet of real turkey feathers, it was quite an imposing sight!



The statue was built on the backside of the cabin (next to the flagpole in the photo below). Since it was hidden from plain view it gave kids quite a scare when they ran around the cabin.



Recently Clothesline Revival used a black and white photo shot in the seventies for the CD cover art of their album "Of My Native Land". The title of the CD is from a chiseled quote on the base of the nearby flagpole from the poem The American Flag by Father Charles Constantine Pise(1801-1866):

THEY SAY I WOULD FORSAKE THE FLAG OF MY NATIVE LAND,
BUT WOE UNTO THE FOE OR STRANGER
WHOSE SACRILEGIOUS HAND WOULD TOUCH THEE
OR ENDANGER FLAG OF MY NATIVE LAND