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A 45-foot-tall sculpture by Alabama artist Dean Mosher, built in Gautier's town-center traffic circle and unveiled on the first day of spring 2013. A tower of oversized copper wildlife native to the area -- snapping turtles, herons, alligators -- surrounded by a fountain and topped with an illuminated plexiglass globe covered in more than 5,000 pieces of stained glass, funded by $6 million in post-Hurricane-Katrina federal rebuilding funds and reflecting the town's 'Nature's Playground' slogan.
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Nature's Playground traffic circle sculpture (45 ft)
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Site-level location · 30.3946° N, 88.6353° W
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A 45-ft tower of copper wildlife sculptures topped by an illuminated stained-glass globe, in a town-center traffic circle.
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Traffic circle at the intersection of N. Dolphin Drive and William Payn Adams Blvd, Gautier, Mississippi.
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