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41: POETIC PELICAN
Sponsors: Beverly & Prentiss Smith
Sponsors: Dale & Bill Wallace
Artist: Lucy Hunnicut
About the Pelican: Fairhope has always been a spot on the earth that encouraged free thinking and welcomed artists. The Poetic Pelican is in homage to this philosophy and is painted in bright, hopeful, happy colors. He is carrying a stringer of short verses written on fish made of reclaimed rubber from the tire of a tractor that once plowed the rich fields outside the town.
About The Artist: About 15 years ago, luck, or providence, placed Lucy in a tiny remote fishing community in the panhandle of Florida in a two room 97 year old heart pine cabin surrounded by woods within earshot of two country churches. From her front porch swing on Sunday afternoons Lucy was gifted from two directions by some of the finest gospel singing ever heard. Winter nights were long and quiet and, during one cold night while stoking the woodstove and listening to Etta James on a cheap radio, Lucy began to paint; her first painting coming from a dream that had remained on her mind from the night before. Lucy began with house paint and a small square of plywood; painting angels on a dark blue sky and wrote on it the words The wings of white birds became angels and flew to the far heavens where they rested. Self taught, Lucy feels she has the luxury of ignorance and the freedom to break the rules.
About The Sponsors: Prentiss and Beverly Smith alternate their time between Brookhaven, Mississippi and Fairhope.
About The Sponsors: Bill and Dale Wallace from Jackson, Mississippi have enjoyed a weekend home in Fairhope for the past 13 years.
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