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Fox Valley carver quick to salvage melting sculpture.
By Susan Squires • Post-Crescent staff writer • July 5, 2009
Fox Valley cheese carver Troy Landwehr's 6-foot, 8-inch likeness of Abraham Lincoln lost its cheddar head Friday while the sculpture was on display outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
"The event was from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., it was 85-degree weather and during the course of the event we had people coming, taking pictures, posing with Lincoln, and at the very end of the event a girl was posing with Lincoln kind of accidentally kicked the podium he was standing on," said Jessica Wickliffe, whose firm publicized the statue's appearance for Cheez-It, its sponsor.
Somebody said, "Just say cheese." Then, Lincoln's head rolled. So did his torso. "The cheese had been out in the sun for five hours," Landwehr said Saturday. "It's cheese. It's a food product."
Wickliffe says it took Landwehr, who also has turned blocks of cheese into the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and the Declaration of Independence, about 10 minutes to put the toppled president back together again.
"He rolled with the punches and fixed it up, and the Lincoln looks great," she said. The statue is a bit shy of its original height, however. Landwehr couldn't salvage the stovepipe hat. "But we saved his face," the sculptor said. "He's OK. He's back to standing tall."
After the surgery, Landwehr drove the sculpture in his refrigerated truck to New York, where they were scheduled to appear this morning on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends.
Landwehr plans to have Abe's likeness back in Wisconsin on Tuesday, and to display him for a couple of days at the Kerrigan Brothers Winery, N2797 State 55, Freedom. Then, he'll disassemble Lincoln again and donate the cheese to charity.
By Susan Squires • Post-Crescent staff writer • July 5, 2009
Fox Valley cheese carver Troy Landwehr's 6-foot, 8-inch likeness of Abraham Lincoln lost its cheddar head Friday while the sculpture was on display outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
"The event was from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., it was 85-degree weather and during the course of the event we had people coming, taking pictures, posing with Lincoln, and at the very end of the event a girl was posing with Lincoln kind of accidentally kicked the podium he was standing on," said Jessica Wickliffe, whose firm publicized the statue's appearance for Cheez-It, its sponsor.
Somebody said, "Just say cheese." Then, Lincoln's head rolled. So did his torso. "The cheese had been out in the sun for five hours," Landwehr said Saturday. "It's cheese. It's a food product."
Wickliffe says it took Landwehr, who also has turned blocks of cheese into the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and the Declaration of Independence, about 10 minutes to put the toppled president back together again.
"He rolled with the punches and fixed it up, and the Lincoln looks great," she said. The statue is a bit shy of its original height, however. Landwehr couldn't salvage the stovepipe hat. "But we saved his face," the sculptor said. "He's OK. He's back to standing tall."
After the surgery, Landwehr drove the sculpture in his refrigerated truck to New York, where they were scheduled to appear this morning on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends.
Landwehr plans to have Abe's likeness back in Wisconsin on Tuesday, and to display him for a couple of days at the Kerrigan Brothers Winery, N2797 State 55, Freedom. Then, he'll disassemble Lincoln again and donate the cheese to charity.
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