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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — If you have driven down Chestnut Street, the North Asheville avenue between Harris Teeter and Trader Joe’s, in the past year, you probably noticed a house with livelier yard decorations than your average home. Which is ironic, considering the decorations are dead.
John Nelson, an artist and designer at BlackBird Frame & Art, and artist Valerie Holstein, are friends, neighbors and the creative collaborators behind “Skeletown,” their name for the one-and-a-half dozen plastic skeletons which adorn Nelson’s yard on East Chestnut Street…