Archive: https://archive.today/FXJA8 From the post: >>During Fred Smith’s golden years, art inexplicably began to pour out of him. The retired lumberjack loved to work with his hands, think with his hands, speak with his hands—and one day, like magic, he began to create with his hands. Bent over by age and arthritis, the Phillips, Wisconsin, resident continued to build life-size and larger-than-life concrete sculptures—over 200 in all—from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, blending local culture and lore with the wider world and the great beyond.