Whitby Heritage Trail - A City Tour Via Art
This is the second post in a series about Whitby, to be posted the second Wednesday of each month. One of the fun things we did in Whitby was track down the sculptures from the Heritage Trail that are spread out around the entire main part of the town. The sculptures were created by Emma Stothard , a Whitby resident and sculptor. She's known for steel wire and willow sculptures of animals. There is a big map showing where to find the sculptures, yet we missed one we passed nearby for a couple days. She was so discreetly situated in front of a church to the right of where we were turning left to get to the public area full of shops and restaurants. I think she was closest to the residential area out of all the others. Gansey Knitter She's known as the Gansey Knitter, and is located on Flowergate. One can fall down a rabbit hole researching ganseys, but the short version is that these are specialized jumpers/sweaters fishermen wore. They were tightly knitted with shortened sleeve...