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Watertown Daily News sees the Bronze Fonz

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By Jeff Sherman

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Photography by John Hart, Daily Times
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Published Aug. 18, 2008 at 11:05 a.m.

Tags: bronze fonz, gerald sawyer, winkler, happy days, watertown daily news

You probably missed Friday's edition of the Watertown Daily Times. I did, too. In it, though, was a photo of the Bronze Fonz, which will be placed at its Riverwalk location later this afternoon and unveiled tomorrow.

Artist Gerald Sawyer is a Watertown native, and reporter Steve Sharp talked to him about his creation and the artistic process of creating a television icon out of bronze.

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