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Many people think of Wilson, county seat of Wilson County, as the world's largest brightleaf tobacco market, However, other treasures are to be found, including internationally-known folk-artist Vollis Simpson, restored streetscapes in the downtown area, the $1 million restoration of the old Wilson Theater, and around a hundred working artists and galleries.
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Vollis Simpson of Wilson began molding metal into artwork when most people were thinking of retirement. He calls his creations whirligigs. They are made from scrap metal, nuts, bolts, fans, and whatever else is available, and Simpson assembles them into giant, wind powered sculptures of machinery that spin and whirl. His machines have stood on his property for years but now are under restoration for placement in a park in Wilson. In 2011, he was a recipient of the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor given to a North Carolina resident or native.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 8, Jan 2013,
p96-98, 100, 102, 104, il, por
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30958
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Following the decline of the tobacco industry, Wilson is refocusing its economy toward arts and innovation. With a city-built high-speed gigabit internet infrastructure in place, a planning partnership between community, business, government, non-profit, health and education seeks to create a "quality of place" that will attract more industry to the area.
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Mountain or coast scape, urban or rural setting, landmark present or prospective, this gallery of paintings selected by the Our State staff can appeal to the heart as well as the intellect.
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42892
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"A spectacle of sculptural art colors the sky above a public park in the heart of a town once known for its bustling tobacco trade. In North Carolina's Coastal Plain, city skylines don't require tall buildings- just revolving pieces of scrap metal and an otherworldly imagination." Vollis simpson died in 2013. The city of Wilson created a park to show off 30 of his whirligig creations in 2017.
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This festival was launched in Wilson in November 2004. Having an intense mechanical curiosity since youth, Vollis Simpson was also fascinated with movement and enjoyed a keen ability for making spectacular moving objects from simple and many times discarded materials. His whirligigs attracted the attention of Wilson city leaders in 2017, who obtained and restored with the aid of a grant many of his fine artworks housed on his farm. the result of this endeavor became the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park in Wilson.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 17 Issue 3, May 2025,
p48-50, il
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