Charlotte, North Carolina: Quill Pen and the Writer's Desk
The jumble of sculptures outside the children's library is titled "The Writers Desk," a 2005 work by Larry Kirkland and tribute to former Charlotte Observer publisher Rolfe Neill. A bronze quill pen sticks up from an inkwell atop a stack of books, surrounded by typewriter keys, pencils and hand stamps.
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- Address:
- 300 East 7th St, Charlotte, NC
- Directions:
- E 7th St., NW of N Brevard St. at the railroad tracks.
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A group of sculptures incorporate the instruments of writing -- typewriter keys, quill pen, stacks of books -- as a tribute to a local newspaper publisher. And this isn't literary-minded Charlotte's only bookish sculpture.