After reading in Tuesday’s Denver Post about a tree sculpture that supposedly had been vandalized in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood, a resident reported that a storm brought down the work of art.
Mary Kay Myers, who lives near where the sculpture fell during Saturday’s snowstorm, said it toppled about noon as she was driving by. She stopped, as did two other motorists, and attempted to pull the heavy tree from traffic on East 23rd Avenue near Ash Street.
“We couldn’t move it, so a man tied a tow strap around one end of it, and we were able to swing it out of the way of traffic,” Myers said. “But the strap became pinned under the log, so we left it there.”
The owner of the sculpture, Lou- Elizabeth Lombard, had reported that vandals had pulled the 11-year-old work over because she had found a strap wrapped around the head of the sculpture, titled “Angelita de la Noche” (“Little Angel of the Night”). She said police took the strap as evidence.
“It’s much better to know that it fell because of an act of God instead of because of vandals,” Lombard said Tuesday. “I’m glad she stopped and helped out.” Mike McPhee, The Denver Post
