Sean Fitzpatrick
Master Sculptor
Boston, MA
781-249-1494 |
Professional
sculpting services for events, parties, and promotion.
Sand Sculpting,
Snow Sculpting, Ice Sculpting, Pumpkin Sculpting, Custom Fine
Jewelry.
Servicing Nationwide
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Welcome
and thank you for choosing Fitzy Snowman Sculpting. Home based
In Saugus Massachusetts, we service nationwide. Our team of
master sculptors travel the united states. You may find us at
your local fair or at corporate events. We have won numerous
awards for our sand, snow and ice sculpting all around New England.
We are also master pumpkin carvers. Our sculpting talents have
been featured on NBC's Today show twice this year. Browse all
of our galleries for a sample of what we can do for your next
special event. Whether you need a sand sculpture, snow sculpture,
ice sculpture or custom carved pumpkin, we promise professional
clean and affordable service. No job is too large or small.
We employ some of the most talented sculptors in the world!
Join
the Fitzy Snow Man Team
Now Hiring in
Colorado
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Sculpting
News
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NBC's Today Show
Sean Fitzpatrick was featured
on NBC's Today show Saturday October 29th promoting Fitzy Snowman
Sculpting's custom carved pumpkins. Hosts, Lester and Cambell,
also tried their hands at carving with instruction from Sean.
Sculpting Lessons
We offer individual and group sculpting
lessons to people of all ages. Ask about our birthday party
lesson package. Sculpting lessons provide the perfect activity
for your next party and can be taylored to your child's particular
interests.
New England Sand Sculpting Invitational
at Revere Beach
Last years event was so sucessful we decided
to extend the event. This year the worlds' best masters and
sculptors will transform Revere Beach with a stunning tribute
to its glorious past. The event will begin Monday July 10th
and conclude Sunday July 16th. Master sculpting competition
begings Thursday July
13th and winners wil be announced
at the conclusion
of the event at the Reinstein Bandstand Sunday July 16th.
Woman's Day October 2006
Although the issue is almost a
year from publication,We at Fitzy Snowman Sculpting are already
looking forward to this issue. A photo shoot is scheduled for
November 7th and 8th which will feature our pumpkins gracing
the cover for the October 2006 issue
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Denver, Colorado Springs, Aurora, Boulder, Littleton, Pueblo, Fort Collins, Arvada, Englewood, Grand Junction, Greeley, Golden, Longmont, Westminster, Broomfield, Canon City, Gunnison, Loveland, Steamboat Springs, Alamosa, Aspen, Commerce City, Craig, Crested Butte, Crowley, Dinosaur, Durango, Estes Park, Evergreen, Florence
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Colorado's
first inhabitants were probably the Anasazi Indians who,
four centuries before Columbus, lived in multi-story cliff
dwellings in canyons in the southwestern corner of Colorado.
At the end of the thirteenth century, these Indians
abandoned their cliff dwellings and apparently moved
southward.
First visited by Spanish explorers in the 1500s, the
territory was claimed for Spain by Juan de Ulibarri in 1706.
In 1540-41, Coronado led an expedition north from Mexico in
search of the Seven Cities of Cibola where the streets were
allegedly paved with gold. Although this exact route is
unknown, it is likely Coronado and his party passed through
the present-day area of southeastern Colorado. Over the next
250 years, the Spanish made other expeditions into the
Colorado area.
In 1800, Spain ceded a vast area, including Colorado, to
Napoleon Bonaparte and the French. Three years later, the
same parcel of land was sold by Napoleon the United States
as the "Louisiana Purchase". In 1806, President Jefferson
commissioned Lieutenant Zebulon Pike to explore the recently
purchased territory. Among the sites mentioned by Pike in
his report of the expedition was the 14,110-foot peak, which
today bears his name. Pike stated in his report that it was
unlikely the summit would ever be scaled.
A group of explorers led by Major Stephen H. Long proved
Pike to be wrong in 1820 when Dr. Edwin James and two others
in the Long party became the first to climb to the summit of
Pike's Peak. In making their journey, Long and his party
passed the present day locations of Greeley, Denver, and
Colorado Springs. They also viewed the mountain later known
as Lounge's Peak.
At about the same time as the Long expedition, fur trappers
and traders began working their trade in the Rocky
Mountains. Beaver fur was considered on of the most precious
commodities on the continent. The beaver pelt, small and
light in weight, provide d a high-priced product in a small
package. A single pelt sold in eastern markets for six to
eight dollars. During the decade of the 1830's both the
supply and price of beaver skins declined, forcing traders
to turn to hunting buffalo. In addition, trading posts were
established for barter with the Indians. Fort Pueblo (1842),
Fort Vesquez (1835), and Bent Fort (1834) were the most
important posts.
Many Indian tribes roamed Colorado and contributed to the
state's history. The Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Kiowa
were the most important plains tribes. They were nomadic,
hunting and making clothes from the skins of buffalo and
deer, living in teepees, and depending on berries and roots
for vegetables. The Spanish found Navajo in southwestern
Colorado. The Apache frequently came into the state from New
Mexico and Arizona. The Utes inhabited the state' s
mountains and appear to have been the only indigenous tribe
of Colorado. Utes remaining in Colorado today live in the
southwestern corner of the state. The Cheyenne and Arapaho
roamed the state's eastern plains.
Colorado has the highest mean elevation of any state, with
more than 1,000 Rocky Mountain peaks over 10,000 feet high
and 54 towering above 14,000 feet. Pikes Peak, the most
famous of these mountains, was discovered by U.S. Army
Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike in 1806. The U.S. obtained eastern
Colorado as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the
central portion in 1845 with the admission of Texas as a
state, and the western part in 1848 as a result of the
Mexican War.
The discovery of gold in California in 1849 touched off a
search for gold in other regions including the Rocky
Mountains and accounted for the first extensive settlement
of Colorado. In July of 1858, William Green Russell, a
Georgia miner, discovered sev eral hundred dollars worth of
gold at the mouth of Dry Creek in the present-day Denver
suburb of Englewood. Russell's find started the "Pike's Peak
or Bust" gold rush of 1858-59. Historians estimate that
approximately 50,000 people came to Colorado in s earch of
gold in 1858-59.
After Russell and his brothers made another gold discovery
on Cherry Creek, General William Larimer led a group of men
from the Kansas Territory to establish a settlement there.
The resulting settlement was christened Denver City in honor
of James W. Den ver, governor of Kansas Territory. Cherry
Creek provided a boundary between Denver City and another
community established earlier, Auraria. Despite an initial
rivalry, these two communities were consolidated into the
single community of Denver in 1860.
Gold deposits found in other areas led to the establishment
of more towns. In particular, the discovery of gold forty
miles west of Cherry Creek led to the establishment of the
twin towns of Central City and Blackhawk. The first
permanent white settlements in the state were in the San
Luis Valley. The town of San Luis founded in 1851 is
generally considered the oldest continually occupied town in
Colorado.
In January of 1861, Congress voted statehood for Kansas. A
bill to create Colorado Territory was passed almost
immediately thereafter. President Lincoln appointed William
Gilpin as the state's first territorial governor. The
population of Colorado in 1861 was 21,000. The first
legislature, sitting in Denver, selected Colorado City (west
of present day Colorado Springs) as the capitol. The second
legislature met there only a few days, in 1862, and
adjourned to Denver. The assembly met in Denver and Golden
up to 1867 when Denver was named the permanent seat of the
territory. In the years following the establishment of the
territory, numerous attempts were made to gain statehood for
Colorado. However, it was not until 1876 - fifteen years
after becoming a territory - that Colorado was admitted as
the thirty-eighth state in the union. Colorado was called
the "Centennial State" in honor of the one-hundredth year of
the Declaration of Independence.
Only after World War II did rapid urban growth take place,
with Denver as the largest point of growth. In the 1970s,
Colorado enjoyed another boom, when the national energy
crisis inflated demand for the state's coal and oil
industries. And when oild prices fell once more in the early
1980s, Colorado resumed its economic bust. In the late 80s
and all through the 1990s, however, the state grew rapidly.
Colorado has the highest mean elevation of any state, with
more than 1,000 Rocky Mountain peaks over 10,000 feet high
and 54 towering above 14,000 feet. Pikes Peak, the most
famous of these mountains, was discovered by U.S. Army
Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike in 1806.
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