ACADEMY
STREET
MEDLEY
BY ARTIST JACK MACKIE, 2017
Downtown Cary's Academy Street now boasts twelve
granite benches in the shapes of music instruments—all of
which found an American voice in the Carolina Piedmont
and Appalachians including the mandolin, dulcimer,
dobro, violin, and courting dulcimer. The sandblast-
etched text present on instruments is by poets
who range from the classical, Yeats and
Coleridge, to North Carolina residents, Carl Sandburg,
RR Richardson, and Maya Angelou, to 21st-century
American writers, April Halprin Wayland.
