I delivered a table to the office of the Raleigh Mayor, Nancy McFarlane on Thursday. It is was made from a post oak tree planted in 1856 at the Dorothea Dix Mental Hospital, which was the year the hospital opened. As many of you are aware, the hospital was closed in 2005. The entire 365 acre plot was gifted to the City of Raleigh in the name of the "People of North Carolina" so that the city could create the first major public park to be built in American since 1865. I designed and built this table as a gift to the Mayor's office. It is from all of us, the People of North Carolina, so that whoever sits in that seat going forward, regardless of their political ideologies, will have to consider the People's Park. Or to put that another way, they have to do their duty, as I believe all Americans are bound, to stand up for the little guy, and be guided by this country's moral responsibility to act first for the people, and not the profit.
It will be featured in Raleigh Magazine next month.
I hope you all enjoy it.
It will be featured in Raleigh Magazine next month.
I hope you all enjoy it.