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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!

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 Sculpting News

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

Portland, Vancouver, Salem, Beaverton, Eugene, Bend, Corvallis, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Gresham, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, Medford, Springfield, Beavercreek, Beaver, Beatty, Bay City, Battle Ground, Bates, Banks, Bandon, Baker City, Azalea, Aurora, Aumsville, Athena, Astoria, Ashwood, Ashland

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States bordering the Pacific Ocean, California, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Its northern border lies along the Columbia River and the east along the Snake River. Two north-south mountain ranges - the Coastal Range and the Cascade Mountain Range - form the two boundaries of the Willamette Valley, one of the most fertile and agriculturally productive regions in the world.

Oregon has some of the most diverse landscapes of the fifty states. It is well known for its forests and its Pacific coastline. Less well known are the semiarid scrublands, prairies, and deserts that cover approximately half the state in eastern and north-central Oregon.

Oregon's earliest residents were several Native American tribes, including the Bannock, Chinook, Klamath, and Nez Percé. James Cook explored the coast in 1778 in search of the Northwest Passage. The Lewis and Clark Expedition traveled through the region during their expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase. They built their winter fort at Fort Clatsop, near the mouth of the Columbia River. Exploration by Lewis and Clark (1805-1806) and Britain's David Thompson (1811) publicized the abundance of fur in the area. In 1811, New York financier John Jacob Astor established Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River with the intention of starting a chain of Pacific Fur Company trading posts along the river. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the War of 1812, the British gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts.

By the 1820s and 1830s, the British Hudson's Bay Company dominated the Pacific Northwest. John McLoughlin, who was appointed the Company's Chief Factor of the Columbia District, built Fort Vancouver in 1825.

In 1841 the master trapper and entrepreneur Ewing Young died with considerable wealth, with no apparent heir, and no system to probate his estate. A meeting followed Young's funeral at which a probate government was proposed. Doctor Ira Babcock of Jason Lee's Methodist Mission was elected Supreme Judge. Babcock chaired two meetings in 1842 at Champoeg - half way between Lees Mission and Oregon City, to discuss wolves and other vermin. These meetings were precursors to an all citizen meeting in 1843, which instituted a provisional government headed by an executive council - made up of David Hill, Alanson Beers, and Joseph Gale.

The Oregon Trail infused the region with new settlers, starting in 1842–43, after the U.S. agreed to jointly settle the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom. The border was resolved in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty after a period where it seemed that the United States and the United Kingdom would go to war for a third time in 75 years. Cooler heads prevailed, and the Oregon boundary dispute between the United States and British North America was set at the 49th parallel. The Oregon Territory was officially organized in 1848.

Settlement increased due to the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, in conjunction with the forced relocation of the native population to Indian Reservations in Oregon. The state was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, regular troops were withdrawn and sent east. Volunteer cavalry were recruited in California and were sent north to Oregon to keep peace and protect the populace. The First Oregon Cavalry served until June 1865.

In the 1880s, railroads enabled marketing of the state's lumber and wheat as well as the more rapid growth of its cities.

Industrial expansion began in earnest following the construction of the Bonneville Dam in 1943 on the Columbia River. The power, food, and lumber provided by Oregon have helped fuel the development of the west, and the periodic fluctuations in the nation's building industry have hurt the state's economy on multiple occasions.

The state has a long history of polarizing conflicts: Native Americans vs. British fur trappers, British vs. settlers from the U.S., ranchers vs. farmers, wealthy growing cities vs. established but poor rural areas, loggers vs. environmentalists, white supremacists vs. anti-racists, supporters of social spending vs. anti-tax activists, and native Oregonians vs. Californians (or outsiders in general). Oregonians also have a long history of secessionist ideas, ranging from varying parts of the population on all sides of the political spectrum attempting to form other states and even other countries. (See: State of Jefferson, State of Klamath, State of Shasta and Cascadia.) Oregon state ballots often include politically conservative proposals (e.g. anti-gay, pro-religious measures) side-by-side with politically liberal ones (e.g. drug decriminalization), illustrating the wide spectrum of political thought in the state.

The origin of the state's name is something of a mystery. The earliest known use of this proper noun was in a 1765 petition by Major Robert Rogers to the Kingdom of Great Britain. The petition referred to Ouragon and asked for money to finance an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.

Why Rogers used the name has led to many theories, which include:

* During the time of the Hudsons Bay Company and the voyages of Robert Gray, the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest referred to the Columbia River as the great "Ouragon" Since the Columbia River is perhaps the most significant geographic feature of the region, it is plausible that the name was anglicized to Oregon and thence became known as such.
* George R. Stewart argued in a 1944 article in American Speech that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the Ouisiconsink (Wisconsin River). This theory was endorsed in Oregon Geographic Names as "the most plausible explanation."
* Other sources cite the use & prevalence of the term, not as an indigenous word, but to the French Canadian word "ouragan" meaning "storm" or "hurricane." Referring to the tumultuous & torrential Columbia river; among the most dangerous river inlets in the world.
* The term *Ouragon" *In 2001, Scott Byram, (currently the archaeologist for the Coquille Indian Tribe), and David G. Lewis published an article in the Oregon Historical Quarterly argued that the name Oregon came from the word oolighan, referring to grease made from fish, which the Native Americans of the region traded in. Those trade routes brought the term eastward.
* In a 2004 article for the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Professor Thomas Love and Smithsonian linguist Ives Goddard argue that Rogers chose the word based on exposure to either of the Algonquian words wauregan and olighin, both meaning "good and beautiful".

Less supported theories are based on it having a Spanish etymology. The theory that it comes from oregano, was dismissed years ago by Henry W. Scott, an early editor of Oregonian. He wrote that it was "a mere conjecture absolutely without support. More than this, it is completely disproved by all that is known of the name." Others have speculated that the name is related to the kingdom of Aragon: the major part of the Spanish soldiers that conquered the West Coast from California to Vancouver Island in the 18th century were, in fact, from Catalonia, an ancient kingdom of the Crown of Aragon.

In 1778, Jonathan Carver used Oregon to label the Great River of the West in his book Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America. The poet William Cullen Bryant took the name from Carver's book and used it in his poem Thanatopsis to refer to the recent discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; this use helped establish it in modern use.