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Review:
Tree Sculpture Tour is the most delightful treasure hunt. You can see tourists with a little brochure and a Google map driving slowly through the East End Historical District and poking their noses into people’s backyards, looking for the famous Tree Sculptures. Tge Tree Sculptures are the product of three local sculptors – Jimmy Phillips, Earl Jones and Dayle Lewis – who have been working since 2009 to convert the trees that died from the sea surge after Hurricane Ike.
They had a lot to choose from – more than 35000 trees died, some of them planted after the previous city tragedy, the storm of 1900. The sculptures are carved from the tree stumps and still in the ground, and the artists are converting them into dogs, birds, angels, and dolphins. It started as a way for the citizens to cope with the tragedy and ended up being one of the city’s biggest tourist attractions.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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