In 2000, the NHE building was an
abandoned, poorly lit unused space with a rotten floor. But we were in the process of planning its
future exhibits and had our minds full of geology, glaciers and mammoths.
Several of us thought it might be fun to have a giant mammoth in the Rhody
Parade but we didn’t have the vaguest idea of how to make one. Enter Lisa Bottomley Mabelle, paper artist
extraordinaire. One quick brainstorming session led to a small sketch which
grew and grew and grew.
With the help of donated brown
wrapping paper from the PT Paper Company, many volunteers highly experienced in
tearing paper and lots of ingenious structure-building by Lisa, a magnificent
mammoth emerged that fit perfectly over Richard Inman’s van. Since the mammoth
“hair” obscured the van’s windshield, driving it in the parade required
navigators walking on both sides of the van, to make sure no one was run over.
After the parade, the mammoth was
fed into a bonfire, to make it truly extinct.
--Libby
Palmer
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That mammoth design surely covers the whole part of the truck window. Can the driver see the road that clearly?
ReplyDeleteIf ever I see that car on the road with windscreens of a mammoth, I don't know what my reaction will be. Maybe I will stop and take some pictures of it.
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