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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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An annual event held the first weekend in November, the North Carolina Whirligig Festival has been attracting visitors from across the nation to Wilson for the past seventeen years.