Everett and world class sculpture
About 45 years ago, world renowned sculptor Douglas Abdell (shown above) was working daily casting, cutting, sanding, painting and creating large scale modern sculptures at the Duncan Galvanizing yard in Everett.
At the time, he was a sculptor and thinker on the rise.
Today, he lives in Spain, a much older, much wiser man and sculptor still working every day with a passion to advance his art.
His work and his lifelong devotion to his art and his skill set find Abdell at the top of his form among the pantheon of great 20th and 21st Century artists and sculptors.
He is very likely the only sculptor to have used a foundry in Everett to create steel works that today are displayed in museums, in public places in the great cities of the world, and which are held like prizes in private collections around the globe.
And to think his career as a sculptor placed him in Everett!
Sean Hogan
Everett Firefighters Union 143 secretary and treasurer Sean Hogan is a very careful man, meticulous in many ways.
When he presented a check to The Pink Angels for $3,500 from the union he represents last week at the Hancock Street fire station, this represented for him a pretty big moment.
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