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Work Continues to Bring Carl Sandburg Statue to Galesburg
A Galesburg native says he's honored to be the one to be crafting the statue of one of the city's most famous native sons.

Lonnie Stewart is in the middle of molding the clay for, and doing some metal work on, the statue that the Galesburg Public Art Commission hopes will be placed in the Public Square sometime before 2014.

Stewart works out of a space in East Peoria, and tells WGIL in many ways, working on a statue of Sandburg is unlike anything he's done before.

"Sandburg was so multi-faceted that's what makes him so exciting to portray. And he had a very interesting face as well and the hairdo, I mean the hair cut everything about him was unique and individual as was Mother Teresa and many other people I've done."

A guitar and a Nubian goat will be a part of the statue as well. Stewart says Sandburg liked that type of goat, and having it as part of the display will show the poet's whimsical side.

A chance to meet Stewart and raise money for the statue will take place in November.
09 24 12 by Newsroom
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