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Mississippi Harvest is a bronze statue of a clam fisherman holding clamming forks overhead, by sculptor Erik Blome, placed on the Mississippi riverfront in Muscatine, Iowa, in 2006. TravelAwaits gives its height as 23 feet; it stands in Riverside Park.
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Mississippi Harvest clam fisher 23-ft bronze
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Approximate location · 41.424° N, 91.043° W
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When sculptor Erik Blome watched his clam fisherman go up on Muscatine's riverfront in 2006, he judged its height by the traffic. "Thousands of people are going to see it from the road," he told the Muscatine Journal. The bronze figure holds a pair of clamming forks that cross above his head; TravelAwaits describes him standing in a clam-filled boat and gives the statue's height as 23 feet.
The subject is local. According to the Mississippi Valley Traveler, Muscatine was the pearl button manufacturing centre of the world in the early 1900s, and the buttons were made from mussels harvested from the Mississippi River.
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A bronze statue in Riverside Park on the Muscatine riverfront, close to the Mississippi Mist spray pad, a boat launch and the riverfront trail, according to TravelAwaits (2022). In June 2025 the city said the spray pad had remained closed since 2023.
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Riverside Park, on the Mississippi riverfront in Muscatine, Iowa; a public city park, with a boat launch and riverfront trail nearby.
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