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Iron Horse
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Chris
December 29, 2021
Everyone who visits Watkinsville needs a pic with the Iron Horse!
Katie
October 9, 2022
Beautiful spot for picture taking and there's a covered bridge nearby, too!
Stacey
August 25, 2021
Grab a coffee from Jittery Joes in downtown Watkinsville (just outside of Athens) and see this on your drive towards Greensboro. Its on the left with plenty of parking.
April
August 25, 2019
Iron Horse (also known as Pegasus Without Wings) is an iron sculpture created by Abbot Pattison, who had been brought to the university on a Rockefeller grant to bring contemporary art to the South. In 1954, the sculpture was not well-received when it was placed in front of a freshman dorm and across the street from an athletic dorm. Students gathered. One painted the word “front” on its neck, and the defacement had begun. “Of course, everyone laughed —was a big joke,” said Earl McCutchen, an art professor who witnessed the incident. “A couple of guys then went in a car and came back with some bushel baskets of horse manure and dumped them behind the thing. You could just see it generating right there. Every group had to outdo the group before.” Mr. VanDerKloot said the pranks built up to the fire ceremony, adding, “They were dancing and chanting around the ring of fire.” “I think it made them really angry that they couldn't destroy the thing,” said Wiley Sanderson, a member of the art faculty who had helped Mr. Pattison construct the statue. “One student said, This may not be art, but it's one hell of a welding job.’ “ O.C. Aderhold, president of the university at the time, ordered the Iron Horse removed from the campus when he heard rumors that students planned to use dynamite or acetylene torches to destroy it. Years later, Dr. L.C. Curtis, a professor of agriculture at the time, asked the chairman of the art department, Lamar Dodd, if he could have the sculpture. Mr. Dodd consented. “Just looking at it, I knew I wanted it,” said Dr. Curtis, now 78 and retired. “I collect conversation pieces. I'm a little bit of an eccentric.” He put the horse on top of a hill on his farm, about 20 miles from the university, where Mr. VanDerKloot discovered it nine years ago when he was a university student. The statue still stands there. (taken from a Nov 4, 1979 article in the The New York Times )
Iron Horse (also known as Pegasus Without Wings) is an iron sculpture created by Abbot Pattison, who had been brought to the university on a Rockefeller grant to bring contemporary art to the South. In 1954, the sculpture was not well-received when it was placed in front of a freshman dorm and acro…
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Watkinsville, GA