Dickson City Land Waves: Valley of 8000 Pines, (sculpture).

Dickson City Land Waves: Valley of 8000 Pines, (sculpture).

Feigenbaum, Harriet, 1939- , sculptor.

Dickson City Land Waves: Valley of 8000 Pines, (sculpture).

Dickson City Land Waves: Pine Forest, (sculpture).

Pine Forest, (sculpture).

Valley of 8000 Pines, (sculpture).

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White pine trees and Austrian pine trees.

8,000 trees. Approx. 50 acres.

An asymmetrical serpentine pine forest composed of 4,000 white pine trees and 4,000 Austrian pine trees. The 8,000 pine seedlings were planted diagonally across the valley, alternating the pine species every five rows. The design was intended to prevent soil erosion while creating the optical illusion of rolling terrain on this former mine site.

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Dickson City

Administered by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources, Scranton District Office, 100 Lackawanna Avenue, Room 401, Scranton, Pennsylvania 18503

Located Storrs Pit, Between U.S. Route 6 & Main Street, Dickson City, Pennsylvania

The Dickson City Land Waves project was sponsored by the Rural Abandoned Mine Program. It was originally intended to involve the reclamation and beautification of three sites within the Storrs Pit, a vast tract of strip mine area in Dickson City, Pennsylvania. The "Valley of 8000 Pines" was completed in May 1983 and the "Black Walnut Forrest" was completed in May 1984,but a serpentine vineyard planned for 1985, on the only private land at the site, was never realized.

Funding for the project was provided by the Department of Environmental Resources of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Scranton Area Foundation, Lackawanna County Commission on Cultural Affairs, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. IAS files contain articles from Sculpture (Nov.-Dec. 1994): pg. 32-33 and Issue, A Journal for Artists (Winter 1986): pg. 37-40. IAS image files contain photos taken while the seedlings were being planted in 1983.

Albright College, Freedman Gallery, 1985, "Sites and Solutions: Public Art," pg. 4, 16.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.

Companion to: 87760009.

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