Creator works to repair Raleigh acorn as its New Year debut looms
The artist behind the famed Raleigh acorn was working Friday to make sure it was ready for its big midnight debut -- just hours away -- to ring in the New Year.
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David Benson created the acorn in 1991, and he was busy two days before it would be pressed into service to make sure it would shine. The acorn was dropped several days ago while it was being transported for a cleaning, causing major structural damage.
"I had to fix it," he said. "I put some new panels on it (and) did some other stuff. It took a lot of time, and I only had a couple of weeks to do it, so I've been on a (time) crunch for the last two weeks."
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