A giant pineapple carved out of the tree on the front lawn of Don Cole’s home in Port Huron, Michigan, on March 17, 2021. (Photo: Provided by C. John Anter)
PORT HURON, Mich. — The boyhood home of Thomas Edison and a honeymoon highlight for Bess and Harry Truman has a new reason that’s putting it on the map: a giant pineapple.
A wooden pineapple sculpture is now listed on Google Maps as “Port Huron Pineapple Statue” as a tourist attraction.
It was sculpted out of a broken red pine tree that was knocked down during a winter storm in December 2020, said owner Don Cole. Only part of the tree snapped off in front of his home, leaving behind a broken trunk that Cole did not know what to do with at first.
After doing some research on the internet, he found a chainsaw artist from New Baltimore named Scott Kuefler and reached out to him.
Turning tree stumps into wood sculptures has gained some attention recently — with local companies like Chainsawcarve.com turning a Wixom family’s 100-year old tree into art in July 2020.
Jim Barnes, of Chainsawcarve.com, transforms Dawn Brusseau’s 100-year old tree into a wooden sculpture after pieces of the tree were destroyed by thunderstorms in the backyard of Brusseau’s home in Wixom,…
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