When some residents of Baltimore’s Pigtown community first suggested the area should have a gateway sculpture to welcome visitors, skeptics said that would happen “when pigs fly.”
Seven years later, the community is celebrating the completion of “Pigtown,” a 36-foot-tall, pig-shaped weathervane sculpture that marks a gateway to the Pigtown community in southwest Baltimore while also showing which way the wind is blowing.
The Citizens of Pigtown neighborhood organization and leaders of the Pigtown Main Street revitalization program held a ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday to dedicate the $120,000 bronze and steel creation by sculptor and Pigtown resident Rodney Carroll.
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