April 16, 2024
Mr Jim Tom Clark Gnome Retired TBA True Builders
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Thomas Clark Cairn Studio Mr Jim 31 (1992) True Builders Of America SeriesMy twelfth and final member of the True Builders series was also the most difficult to Sculpt, for I chose to depict one who had the most influence on my life, my father. Christened James Hector Clark, he was "Mr. Jim" to all, and I was mostly known as Mr. Jim's Son. My father had many vocations: farmer, banker, entrepreneur, politician, but my strongest memories are of him in his general store in Elizabethtown, North Carolina w the motto was "We Sell Everything."My first job at the store was in the ice cream freezer section. I was later promoted to work in Dry Goods while my brother worked in Groceries. The statue shows Mr Jim bagging groceries for a customer and the sides of the counter are plastered with actual newspaper ads from the 1930's. The counter is surrounded with other merchandise you'd find for sale in a general store: tomatoes, apples, potatoes, and sacks of flour and seed. In those days merchants stayed with the customer until their shopping was completed. The average sale was about $2.00, and many cash-poor farmers paid for their purchases with scrip until their crops came in. By honoring my father I am symbolically honoring all fathers whose strength of character has been a positive influence on their children. Pictures just can not do this
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