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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

Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Aberdeen, Brookings, Chamberlain, Huron, Milbank, Spearfish, Yankton, Box Elder, Bowdle, Bonesteel, Blunt, Black Hawk, Bison, Big Stone City, Beresford, Belvidere, Belle Fourche, Bath, Batesland, Barnard, Baltic, Badger, Avon, Aurora, Astoria, Ashton, Artesian, Armour

Exploration of this area began in 1743 when Louis-Joseph and François Verendrye came from France in search of a route to the Pacific.The U.S. acquired the region as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and it was explored by Lewis and Clark in 1804-06. Fort Pierre, the first permanent settlement, was established in 1817. In 1831, the first Missouri River steamboat reached the fort.

Settlement of South Dakota did not begin in earnest until the arrival of the railroad in 1873 and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills the following year.

South Dakota's economy in recent years has benefited from an expanding and diversifying industrial base. Agriculture is a cultural and economic mainstay, but it no longer leads the state in employment or share of gross state product. Durable-goods manufacturing and private services have evolved as the drivers of the economy. Tourism is also a booming industry in the state, generating approximately $1.25 billion worth of economic activity each year.

South Dakota is the second largest producer of flaxseed and sunflower seed in the nation. It is the third largest producer of hay and rye.

South Dakota is the nation's second leading producer of gold and the Homestake Mine is the richest in the U.S. Other minerals produced include berylium, bentonite, granite, silver, and uranium.

The Black Hills are the highest mountains east of the Rockies. Mt. Rushmore, in this group, is famous for the likenesses of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, which were carved in granite by Gutzon Borglum. A memorial to Crazy Horse is also being carved in granite near Custer.

Other tourist attractions include the Badlands; the World's Only Corn Palace, in Mitchell; and the city of Deadwood, where Wild Bill Hickok was killed in 1876 and where gambling was recently legalized to truly recapture the city's Old West flavor.

Human beings have lived in what is today South Dakota for at least several thousand years. French and other European explorers in the 1700s encountered a variety of groups including the Omaha and Arikara (Ree), but by the early 1800s the Sioux (Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota) were dominant. In 1743, the LaVerendrye brothers buried a plate near the modern capital Pierre (pronounced as "peer") claiming the region for France as part of greater Louisiana. In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon, though the native peoples inhabiting most of this area were not aware of the transaction.

President Thomas Jefferson organized a group called the Corps of Discovery, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (commonly referred to as "Lewis and Clark"), to explore the newly-acquired region. In 1817, an American fur trading post was set up at present-day Fort Pierre, and this was the beginning of continuous American settlement of the area. Through much of the 19th century, exploratory expeditions such as those of Lewis and Clark and Joseph Nicollet coincided with an increasing presence of the U.S. Army. In 1855, the U.S. Army bought Fort Pierre but abandoned it the following year in favor of Fort Randall to the south. Settlement by Americans and Europeans was, by this time, increasing rapidly, and in 1858, the Yankton Dakota Sioux resigned to signing the 1858 Treaty, ceding most of present-day eastern South Dakota to the United States. Of this, Yankton leader Strike-the-Ree said "The white men are coming like maggots. It is useless to resist them.... Many of our brave warriors would be killed, our women and children left in sorrow, and still we would not stop them."

Land speculators founded two of eastern South Dakota's largest present-day cities, Sioux Falls in 1856 and Yankton in 1859. In 1861, Dakota Territory was recognized by the United States government (this initially included North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of Montana and Wyoming). Settlers from Scandinavia, Germany, Ireland, and Russia, as well as elsewhere in Europe and from the eastern U.S. states, increased from a trickle to a flood, especially after the completion of an eastern railway link to the territorial capital of Yankton in 1872, and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills in 1874 during a military expedition led by George A. Custer. This expedition took place despite the fact that all of Dakota Territory west of the Missouri River (along with much of Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming) had been granted to the Sioux by the Treaty of 1868 as part of the Great Sioux Nation. The Sioux declined to grant mining rights or land in the Black Hills, and war broke out after the U.S. failed to stop white miners and settlers from entering the region.

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were major resistance leaders — but the Americans, with greater numbers and superior weaponry, who were also aided by the sharp decline in numbers of the buffalo (a major food source of the Sioux), were unstoppable. Indeed, between 1878 and 1886, the Euro-American settler population of eastern Dakota Territory tripled. The last major incident in this struggle occurred on December 29, 1890, at Wounded Knee Creek in present-day western South Dakota when U.S. soldiers massacred as many as 300 Sioux, mostly women and children.

Just over a year earlier, on November 2, 1889, Dakota Territory had become the modern states of North Dakota and South Dakota after a dispute between settlers in northern and southern regions over the location of the state capital (originally Yankton but surreptitiously moved to the present-day capital of North Dakota, Bismarck).