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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON! MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, January 3, 1958 i-1 is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ringer-Naturalist The time when the first group of happy, laughing children rolled up huge snow balls and piled them one on another, stuck in coals for eyes, a corncob pipe, and mops for arms to make a snowman goes back into antiquity. But just 100 years today was born the wonderful art of creatine masterpieces in snow sculp ture in me uuie town oi Brattleboro, Vermont. A young man, Larkin Gold mith Mead, worked ag a clerk in Brattleboro's hard ware store. When not weigh ing nails or selling horse shoes, he could usually be found carving figurines from yellow bars of laundry soap, or modeling little animals in clay. On the last day of the year, 1857, there was a deep fall of damp snow. Walking back from the store the 22-year-old clerk scooped up a hand ful and unconsciously began shaping it. And with it, a sud den inspiration struck him. That night, after the town had gone to bed and the moon rode high, Larkin made his way to the village square with a shovel and trowel and work ed almost the night through, creating a snow angel. The New Year's Day, he was Brattleboro's hero ' everyone knew it had to be young Larkin Mead. On the strength of this achievement and encouraged by friends, he resigned his job at the store to study sculpture in New York. Two years later, Larkin came back and in gratitude decided to make a repeat per fqrmance. On this occasion, he enlisted the help of several local boys and ' they erected in snow a truly dazzling re cording angel with a book. Early Risers Amazed The local paper ran an ecstatic front-page story: "Transoendentally beauti ful stood the Snow Angel in the prismatic glow of the morning sun's reflection. The early risers and pedestrians about town were amazed, when they drew near, to see a statue of such exquisite contour and grace of form, with such delicate modelings and dimplings in details as to suggest the use of a chisel, and that only in a master hand." Fortunately the cold wea ther held and visitors came from afar to acclaim the angel. From his original adventure in snow sculpture, Larkin Mead went on to other crea tions but these were' inter rupted during the Civil War when he joined the Union forces as an illustrator-correspondent for Harper's week ly. During this period he did the beloved Springfield statue of Lincoln. Now it may be in the realm of possibility that the idea of snow figures goes far be yond this. One legend has it that King John, one snowy January morning in 1212, found in the courtyard a grim acing white effigy of himself, a pot for crown, a faggot for a scepter. At anv rate. Vermonters iake pride in their son and claim he made the first real anow sculpture . . . and point this out to the students of nearby Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, who each year decorate their campus with an elaborate exhibit of snow figures the subjects pranging from skiers to ele phants. As for Larkin Mead, his pieces though not many range across , the land, from the Stanford University Palo Al to, across to the Fathers of Waters at the headwaters of the Mississippi at Minnea polis, the already mentioned monument of Lincoln at Springfield; a heroic figure of Vermont atop the State Cap ital, figures of Ethan Allen in both Montpelier and in Wash ington's Hall of Statuary; and the equestrian statue of George Washington in Union Square. New York. (Copyright, 1957, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges win awara j each week to the reader who ; sends me the best true-life: nature adventure, the best , nature observation, or the j best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-vol-j lime set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome j Sealcraft binding. Each week ! new submissions will be con-; sidsred. Sorry, I simly can't j answer your many ' friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575,; Sausalito, Calif. ! BOOK PUBLISHER DIES Philadelphia OH Alfred C. Balch 95, retired vice pres-1 ident of J. P. Lippincott Co., ' hnnk Dublishers, died Mon- S4 O MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR WOOL SHIRTS Odd lots of men'i wool shirts. Sizes S-M-L-XL. Reg. to 11.95 788 Men's Robes Men's better robes fully lined in satin. Rayons and terry robes and some washable wool blends. 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