Wickham Stone Park (circa 1969) is a collection of folk art, consisting of over 40 life-size concrete statues of political figures,Indian chiefs, politicians,patriots and religious figures. The park is the lifetime creation of Tennessee folk artist Enoch Tanner(E.T.) Wickham (1883-1970).
Oh my goodness, I just rediscovered E.T. Wickham thanks to your website. Back in 1975 I was a teenager living for a brief time in a small town called Waverly Tennessee and my friends and I visited "The Statues" as we called it on many occasions. It was such a treasure and even though we were frivolous teenagers we were awed by the creativity and genius of the artist, E T Wickham. I have a very pleasant memory of taking my mom there. Thank you for creating this blog and the Stone Park website.
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Oh my goodness, I just rediscovered E.T. Wickham thanks to your website. Back in 1975 I was a teenager living for a brief time in a small town called Waverly Tennessee and my friends and I visited "The Statues" as we called it on many occasions. It was such a treasure and even though we were frivolous teenagers we were awed by the creativity and genius of the artist, E T Wickham. I have a very pleasant memory of taking my mom there. Thank you for creating this blog and the Stone Park website.
I've just found out about him for the first time. So I guess you've started a spark and rekindled an old flame at once!
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