Inspiration for new additions to Bill Young’s Daylight Sculpture Garden — an impressive display of green wood art in northern Vanderburgh County — came from distant corners of the world.
The U.S. Army veteran and Vectren Corp. retiree has about 150 sculptures outside that the public can visit, more than double the total he reported when Evansville Living visited in November/December 2022. Another 450 creations are in Young’s home.
Young credits Evansville’s Hoffherr Landscaping for a replica of Stonehenge near Salisbury, England. Hoffherr “does really good work” and has added a totem pole, Young says. He cast a wider net for a likeness of Easter Island stone heads on the Chilean territory in the Pacific Ocean. Its moais were delivered from Texas, but they were carved from green lava stone in Indonesia…