Art Chowder September | October, Issue 17 | Page 10

E
ven though the pitch for the idea started with
Haagenson, Terry exhibits a genuine personal
pride and interest in the series. He grew up in
Coeur d’Alene; starting in 1947 his father’s surplus
sporting goods store on West Appleway (where the
Cracker Barrel now stands) supplied many area out-
doorsmen for decades. He reminisced with nostalgia
in his eyes: the smell of fresh-cut wood and smoke
at the mill near what is now Riverstone; his high
school friends who got lucrative jobs in the Kellogg
and Wallace mines so they could buy guns and fish-
ing tackle at the store; the logs rumbling downriver
to the lake in near-perpetuity.
— Terry is powerfully local.
Bronze is just the tip of his artistic iceberg. Terry
may never have gotten into it if longtime friend and
mentor George Carlson, painter-sculptor, hadn’t told
him, “Terry, if you sculpt, you will draw better.” As
many who have followed Terry up to now probably
know, art was not his first career, nor his second.
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