All About Squirrel Canyon..

Squirrel Canyon is a little-known, unpublicized bit of land north of Greensburg, PA. Not exactly a canyon, it is a tribute to one of the most regal, impressive animals on earth, the squirrel.

Welcome! Look on this site for:
The Actors
Other Carvings
Squirrel Facts and Fun

...the saga begins harmlessly enough...

It all started off quite simply, with the building of a sturdy back-yard enclosure for the family four-legger, Bandit (now in charge of security and well-being of his furry-tailed accomplices). Each fence post consisted of a 4X4 (for those uninitiated to the plot to sell us less wood for the same "nominal" dimension, that's a 3.5" x 3.5" post).

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When we put up the fence, the neighborhood squirrels decided they owned it. And since we needed something to top off the posts, what more fitting than a carved squirrel?

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What? did I say "A" squirrel? Just so happens, there are, last count, 23 posts. And each carving takes about 30 hours. That means there will be a lot of shavings laying around, and this could take several years (I do have a real job!)

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So now what do we do? Can't just carve a bunch of squirrels (boring!) so we created a world where squirrels, instead of primates, were the dominant species and predecessors of todays world (sort of squirrelo sapiens - please accept my apology, you anthropologists out there). Now our imagination can expand!

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So we came up with a list of furry rodentia we intend to enshrine forever in cellulose. The list is ongoing, probably won't stop until they pry my "cold, dead hands" from around my 15mm #1 gouge, and is as follows:

• Mother Squirrel
• Father Squirrel
• Blacksmith Squirrel
• Tae-Kwon-Do Squirrel
• Leprechaun Squirrel
• Scottish Highlander Squirrel
• Chef Squirrel
• Franco Harris Immaculate Reception Squirrel
• FDNY (911) Squirrel

  Those are what we've carved so far - check out the link above to see them - and below are the ones we have planned and are yet to be done:

  • Four Squirrels hoisting the flag at Iwo Jima
  • Mario Lemieux Squirrel
  • Elvis Squirrel (I've seen him in our backyard!!)
  • Marilyn Monroe (over the air grate) Squirrel
  • Abraham Lincoln Squirrel
  • Gene Simmons (KISS) Squirrel
  • Three Squirrels moving a huge Acorn
  • Squirrel carving a Squirrel carving a Squirrel (M.C.Escher inspired)
  • ???????

    At this point I get "squirreled out" and can't think of too many more that would be reasonably do-able and still convey the view of today's pop culture (after all, after the Big One, these may stand, and an eon from now, some anthropologist, or some other kind of apologist, may wonder what was going on here).

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    Website created by The Mad Squirrel (Gerald Torbert)
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