Cincinnati Flying Pig - Sawyer Point Park, Cincinnati, Ohio
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a sculpture of a flying pig located in Sawyer Point Park in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 06/27/2018
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This sculpture of a flying pig is located near the statue of the Roman hero and namesake of the city, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, in Sawyer Point Park in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The story behind the flying pig
According to the May 7th, 1999 edition of Cincinnati Enquirer, "to celebrate the city's 200th birthday, plans were made (in 1988) to build a riverfront park — Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point — that would include an entrance sculpture. From more than 50 proposals, a team of renowned artists and architects selected a sculpture design by Andrew Leicester, an internationally known artist based in Minneapolis.
Mr. Leicester incorporated various aspects of Cincinnati history into his design. Pigs, he knew, played a significant role in the city's industrial development.
Indeed, Donna M. DeBlasio, senior historian for Cincinnati Museum Center, notes that by 1835 Cincinnati was the nation's leading pork-packing center. And by the 1840s, it was the world leader, with a quarter of a million hogs a year being slaughtered and processed here.
To pay homage to Cincinnati's reign as Porkopolis, Mr. Leicester included in his sculpture four 3-foot-high bronze pigs, with wings. They appeared to be blasting out of 30-foot-tall riverboat smokestacks".
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Cincinnati hosts the annual Flying Pig Marathon.
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According to Wikipedia, "Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the government seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers. The city drives the Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area, which had a population of 2,172,191 in the 2010 census. With a population of 301,301, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and 65th in the United States. It is the fastest growing economic power in the Midwestern United States based on percentages and the 28th-biggest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. Cincinnati is also within a single day's drive of two-thirds of the United States populace".
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