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The Rock 2010, By Dave Rubin, Visual Artist And Musician, From Ketchikan, Alaska
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A woman explorer wore a big hat to protect herself from the frequent rain during the summer months.
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A much smaller plaque credits that artists that worked on this sculpture:
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The sculpture stood at the edge of town facing the sea at Berth 3, the 400 foot berth for cruise ships.
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"The Rock" sculpture was backed by a street lined with tourist shops.
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A cruise ship (The Ruby Princess) blocked the view of the sea.
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A fish caught by a fisherman using a gaffe hook to haul it on board. The fishermen caught salmon and halibut.
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A large plaque embedded in stone described the sculpture as, "The Rock." In part, it read:
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A miner wore a carbide lamp on his helmet. In the days of yore, mining was done by hand using picks and shovels to find Yukon gold.
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A Tlingit woman sits with her drum singing her song of Ketchikan. She tells the story you see before you on The Rock.
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The logger was an ordinary man wearing a soft hat who used saws and axes to fell trees for shipping south to be milled into construction wood.
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The floatplane pilot wore leather with goggles. He flew light planes in bad weather that gave access to the otherwise inaccessible interior.
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