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Pearl Fryar
American topiary artist
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Born | (1939-12-04) December 4, 1939 (age 85) Clinton, North Carolina, United States |
Occupation | Topiary artist |
Pearl Fryar (born December 4, 1939) is an American topiary artist living in Bishopville, South Carolina.
Biography
Pearl Fryar was born on December 4, 1939, in Clinton, North Carolina, to a sharecropper family.[1] In the late 1950s, he attended the North Carolina College in Durham.[2] He served in the military and was in the Korean War.
After leaving the military, he moved to Queens, New York. In 1975, he began work as a factory engineer at a Coca-Cola soda can factory in Bishopville until his retirement in 2006.[3][4][2]
Initially, Fryar wanted to move into Bishopville's city limits, however he was blocked from purchasing a home in the area due to white residents thinking he wouldn't maintain his property and instead built on the outskirts