The cow statue project was Marie Hetzel's first foray into sculpting and casting. The project was time-intensive, like waiting a day to apply each of 28 layers of liquid latex rubber to the cow model.

SHEBOYGAN – Two concrete cow statues, not lions, stand in front of Marie Hetzel’s home near Lake Michigan. Hetzel has always noticed lion statues, feeling they resemble European art and have a regal, ...

MICHIGAN CITY – Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my! And alligators, elephants and giraffes. Say what? Throw in rabbits, bulldogs, gnomes, tiki heads, gargoyles, owls and armadillos not to mention ...

The silo holds 64 tons of cement, rises as high as the factory it feeds into and is a serious status symbol in the modest world of statue manufacturing. It's part of a concrete-processing machine that ...