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Hotmail Print Message Page 1 of <br /> [Town' Press Release] Arbor with Historic Roses, Donkey Sculpture Wow <br /> Hillsborough's Historic District <br /> From: The Town of Hillsborough Government, NC(webmaster @www.ci.hillsborough.nc.us) <br /> Sent: Thu 5/31/12 4:53 PM <br /> To: ghcooley @msn.com <br /> Arbor with Historic Roses, Donkey Sculpture Wow Hillsborough's Historic <br /> District <br /> The Hillsborough Historic District Commission recognized art and flowers on May 25 for their compatible role in <br /> preserving the downtown's historic nature. <br /> The awards, presented at Last Fridays,were: <br /> • The 2012 Preservation Award for Site Features and Plantings to the rose arbor at the Burwell School Historic Site <br /> • The 2012 Preservation Award for Art to Hillsborough residents Phil and Gail Cooley and the Eno River Parking Deck <br /> The Preservation Award for Art recognizes the life-size metal donkey <br /> Jack that has returned to Hillsborough to permanently graze by the <br /> Eno River Parking Deck on Nash and Kollack Street.The sculpture <br /> with its exceptional personality as well as compatible materials, <br /> placement, mass and scale,and overall design—was deemed an k <br /> outstanding example of compatible artwork in the Historic District. <br /> Jack creates a community focal point and vitalizes public space in the <br /> district,the commission noted. <br /> The sculpture—created by artist Jonathan Bowling of Greenville from <br /> reclaimed metal, including-artiM„e farm machinery and demolition <br /> scrap—is on permanent loan for public display from the Cooleys Jack; : <br /> was installed April 15 and was one of six sculptures exhibited last year v <br /> as part of the town's first sculpture tour.At that time, he was placed in <br /> front of the Masonic Lodge and won the People's Choice Award in the =- <br /> tour organized primarily by Gail Cooley.It was Jack's popularity that <br /> spurred Cooley to coordinate with parking deck owners George I. <br /> Horton and Jim Parker to bring the donkey back as a way to perk up the parking deck. <br /> http://by 173 w.bay 173.mail.live.com/maii/PrintMessages.aspx?cpids=b475bb68-ab62-11 e 1-9bf6-002... 11/21/201,' <br />