There, in a park, we found a statue erected after Punta Gorda survived Hurricane Charley. It's called "The Spirit to Punta Gorda".
This statue was created in 2005 by artist Peggy McTeague and friends, who welded various pieces of metal, including I-beams from destroyed hurricane trailers. At the base (you will have trouble seeing it in my photos) there is a sundial, with a shadow at 4:27pm marking the time Hurricane Charley hit the city.
Just think - Punta Gorda ("Fat Point" in Spanish) remained unbowed despite being hit by a Category four hurricane in August of 2004.
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that statue didn't exist the last time I was in Punta gorda. It's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteSome very well constructed sculptures, and pretty skies!
ReplyDeleteLovely! Are you there now? I'm heading for Florida soon, too. Can't wait!
ReplyDeleteI love the sculpture, it's meaningful and hopeful and a little haunting (or maybe that's just that you took these pics at sunset).
ReplyDeleteI love that sculpture. I've only been through one hurricane, Alicia in the mid 1980's when I lived north of Houston, TX. It was a weak hurricane and I lived 100 miles from the coast but it came right on top of my house, considerably weakened of course, and I swore next time I was going to Omaha, Nebraska. It made my trees turn sideways, I lost only one though and suffered no other damage.
ReplyDeleteHow truly gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLooks great. And a great story.
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