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Ottawa Indian wood statue installed in Falls park
By Jim Carney
Beacon Journal
Published on Thursday, Jul 24, 2008
CUYAHOGA FALLS: Chief Pontiac has been here before.
That's the story Dreama Powell, president of the Northampton Historical Society, tells.
On Wednesday, Powell was on hand as a 161/2-foot carving of the Ottawa Indian chief was dropped onto a 4-foot-high base on a hillside at Keyser Park near Northampton and West Bath roads.
''He grew up here. He spent his youth here,'' Powell said of Pontiac, subject of the eighth American Indian statue donated to the public by Stow sculptor Joe Frohnapfel.
According to the Web site, http://www.pontiac.mi.us, the chief lived from 1720 to 1798 and ''was rugged, yet charismatic; strong, but gentle; a warrior, as well as a diplomat.''
His statue, carved from the trunk of a century-old white oak, was hoisted into the air by a crane from Stillwell Equipment of Peninsula and placed on the base just before 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Most of the carving had been done with a chain saw, but the ''fine detail is with hammer and chisel,'' Frohnapfel said.
As the statue was fitted into place, Carson Norris and Justin Whitely, both 12 and seventh-graders at Woodridge Middle School, snapped pictures on their cell phones of the newest inhabitant of the park.
''That's cool,'' Carson said as he looked at the image he had just taken.
Powell, who also was photographing the event, told the boys they had just seen something important happen.
''You witnessed a historic moment,'' he said.
On Sept. 6 and 7, the Northampton Historical Society will co-sponsor the Crooked River All Nation Powwow at the park at 783 W. Bath Road, near the statue.
Powwow hours will be noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 6 and 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 7. Admission will be $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and free for children under age 12.
For information about the powwow, call 330-929-1963.
Jim Carney can be reached at 330-996-3576 or jcarney@thebeaconjournal.com.
CUYAHOGA FALLS: Chief Pontiac has been here before.
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