Farmer - Corsicana, TX
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N 32° 05.765 W 096° 27.912
14S E 739209 N 3553898
On the north end of Beaton Street, just a few blocks from the statue of an oilfield worker in downtown Corsicana, is a new bronze statue of a farmer. It was installed Friday on the sidewalk in front of the Beaton Meat Market.
Waymark Code: WMXKVQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/26/2018
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Corsicana Daily Sun
Created by Lisa Perry, the artist who also did the oilfield worker, the farmer is the likeness of Lutzen Veldman, the father of Obe Veldman and grandfather of Nick Veldman, who owns the Beaton Meat Market.
“When I saw the statue of the oil worker I thought ‘Corsicana is a farming community,’” Veldman explained. “I thought about various people who could be the face of the farmer and I thought ‘why not my father?
Lutzen Veldman was born in the Netherlands and worked his entire life as a farmer and dairyman. The statue includes his wooden shoes, and a missing finger from his right hand, which Lutzen lost in a dairy accident.
It shows him with a bag of seed and he’s seemingly caught in mid-throw, as he casts the seeds out to the soil. The bag is inscribed with “Parable of the Sower Luke 4:4-8.”
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