Terry Philips transforms a entrance-yard tree into piece of artwork
Falling leaves from a large maple tree became an eyesore for Jackson Township resident Terry Phillips. So he hired woodcarving artist Jack Riese, of Massillon, to transform the tree into a piece of art, consisting two eagles and a bear.

JACKSON TWP. – An usually patriotic Terry Phillips was a little bit exhausted of looking at the slipping leaves from the large maple tree in his front yard.

So he made the decision to make a change.

In May, Phillips hired a chainsaw woodcarver to aid rework the tree into a Y-formed piece of art, consisting two bald eagles on just about every close and a grizzly bear at the foundation.

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“You can find all this detrimental (political) stuff out there. So I believed there isn’t anything superior than the two eagles,” Phillips mentioned about the piece, which was designed by Lumberjack Chainsaw Artwork.

“I failed to want just a stump sitting down there wanting like practically nothing.” 

Terry Phillips is proud of the newly carved, patriotic-themed art at his Oxford Avenue NW home in Jackson Township.

Woodcarver Jack Riese, of Massillon, is the artist who formed Phillips’ tree, which stands all-around 10-feet tall. He claimed the