Sundial to improve park
Vanessa Shuck
Issue date: 11/12/09 Section: News
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Purchased by the Friends of Stocks Park and the Hillsdale Garden Society, the sundial is a centerpiece for landscaping. The group plans to encircle it with thyme, flowers and a walkway with personalized bricks from donors to the association, which aims to beautify and clean up the park.
The artist, Joel Sanderson, sculpted the piece over the past few months. He titled it "Awakener."
"The primary features of 'Awakener' are a seed and a sundial. The seed on the ground is sprouting, with its sprouts lifting time, which is flowing, dripping back to the seed," Sanderson said in his statement concerning the piece.
Sanderson has pursued blacksmithing since the age of 14 and now has his own shop in Quincy. He began with his great-grandfather's forge and still uses old methods and 19th century machinery to do his work. His work can be seen at his Web site sandersoniron.com.
Stocks Park is located just east of the abandoned Stock Mills. The Friends of Stocks Park work to beautify it, cleaning up the ponds and taking care of the landscape.
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