Hick Lacks Attention to Detail

Hick spent part of last week visiting an old friend. Pal happens to be a retired teacher, who is also a wood carver. It's not like he's churning out Pinocchios every other day. He can carve on a large scale. Here's one of his works that Hick took a picture of on his travels.

Unfortunately, Hick lacks attention to detail. He said he was "in a museum near Moline, Illinois." Didn't say if he WAS in Illinois. Or the name of the museum. He says there's a name for this piece somewhere, but he doesn't remember it.

The most information I have from Hick is that this structure is 19 feet tall. He doesn't know what kind of wood. Parts of the carving are different colors, depending on whether they were carved outside, in the sun, or indoors. Hick also has pictures of the other side, but he has not bothered to send them to me.

If you can, zoom into this photo and look at the assorted figures. I missed the horse, for cryin' out loud, the first several times I looked at it.

Hick says they went inside the museum, and Pal asked the lady in charge something. She looked at him quizzically, and started to mention something about the hours they were open. Then Pal asked if he could step into the exhibit to do something to it. "I'm the artist who carved it." And the lady said, "OH! I knew you looked familiar, but I couldn't place you."

As some of you have ascertained...Hick has connections in many different fields.
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I think this might be him. Looks like it's a ginkgo tree, according to this article about moving it to the Hampton Heritage Center. Which is, I suppose, the "museum" that Hick mentioned. And I'm pretty sure this is the staircase carving that Hick told me about. That staircase site made me answer a survey question to see the content. Just sayin'.