Tall Oak - Troy, KS
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N 39° 47.158 W 095° 05.337
15S E 321125 N 4406089
Whispering Giant sculpture located in Troy, Kansas.
Waymark Code: WMNF1D
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 03/03/2015
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County of art: Doniphan County
Location of art: Chestnut St. side, courthouse lawn, Troy
Artist: Peter Toth
Date dedicated: September 29, 1979
Text on attached plaque:
to the
AMERICAN INDIAN
sculpture
by
PETER TOTH
Dedicated Sept. 29, 1979
by Gov. John Carlin
"The Trail of the Whispering Giants is a collection of sculptures by Hungarian-born artist Peter Wolf Toth. The sculptures range in height from 20 to 40 feet (6.1 to 12.2 m), and are between 8 and 10 feet (2.4 and 3.0 m) in diameter. Currently there are 74 Whispering Giants, with at least one in each of the 50 U.S. states, as well as in Ontario and Manitoba, Canada, and one in Hungary. In 1988, Toth completed his goal of placing at least one statue in each of the 50 states, by carving one in Hawaii, and in 2008, he created his first Whispering Giant in Europe, Stephen I of Hungary in Délegyháza, Hungary along the Danube River.
In 2009, eight more Whispering Giants were planned.
"(Update February 2, 2015) The Trail of the Whispering Giants is an ongoing project and much of the material here especially the chart below is out of date and too extensive to edit fully this article. A traveler, David Schumaker, went on a quest to identify all the Whispering Giant statues and has documented 57 existing statutes and identified 12 that are are now missing or destroyed since Peter Wolf Toth began this project in 1972. Mr. Schumaker has documented his information on the WEB site Peter Wolf Toth where you will find the most current information on the Whispering Giants and messages from the artist himself." ~ Wikipedia