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The museum’s signature 55-foot-tall outdoor piece, known as the “giant whirligig,” is coming down for conservation, starting Monday. The process, which will give some much-needed maintenance to the sculpture, is being funded by a $50,000 grant.
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When you think about a whirligig, you think of the simple handheld children’s toy like a pinwheel that spins and twirls with a light breeze.
Folk artist Vollis Simpson had a more elaborate vision when he created an entire landscape of towering whirligig structures in a field near his home in Lucama, North Carolina.Simpson died in 2013 at the age of 94, but not before witnessing the early stages of a park devoted to his elaborate creations in nearby Wilson, North Carolina.
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