TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON! MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, January 3, 1958
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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)
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