Who’s the Fairest of Them All?

In Southern Wisconsin, about a mile outside of the small town of Hollandale, is Nick Engelbert’s Grandview , a magical concrete sculpture park. Nick’s labor of love was created between 1937 and the late 1950s. The tableaux shown above shows a rather formidable Snow White intimidating her dwarfs, holding what may have been a “stick of discipline.” An over-view of the scene raises more questions than it answers:

There are 8 or 9 similar “concrete parks” in Wisconsin, I visited a different one 18 years ago and wrote about it in one of my earliest blog-posts. Most of them have been somewhat restored in recent years; a project underwritten by the Kohler (plumbing fixtures) corporation.