{"id":594,"date":"2006-12-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/article\/titanic-lands-another-first-with-sanctioned-ice-carving-contest"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"titanic-lands-another-first-with-sanctioned-ice-carving-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"TITANIC Lands Another &#8220;First&#8221; With Sanctioned Ice Carving Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/p>\n<div id=\"articlepix\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"359\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" src=\"\/articleimages\/Image\/Issue061213\/TitanicNICA_25sIceCarvingCompetition_Titanic_.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>          A beautiful Eagle ice sculpture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.titanicbranson.com\/\">The World&rsquo;s Largest TITANIC Museum Attraction<\/a> has been chosen as the host site for a <a href=\"http:\/\/nica.org\/\">National Ice Carving Association<\/a> sanctioned competition to be held on Saturday, January 13, 2007, according to museum-attraction co-owner Mary Kellogg Joslyn. <\/p>\n<p>The nation&rsquo;s best ice sculptors will compete on-site from 8:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. at the Titanic Museum Attraction&rsquo;s outdoor entertainment center by the ship&rsquo;s bow. The event is free and open to the public. &ldquo;This is a first for Titanic and for Branson,&rdquo; Kellogg Joslyn said, &ldquo;and the first of many special events coming to Titanic in 2007 to give our visitors something new and exciting to see when they come for a tour.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The National Ice Carving Association (www.nica.org), headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, will award recognition and $4,000 in prize money to the top sculptors. Those wishing to enter the competition can obtain an application on the Titanic&rsquo;s website at www.titanicbranson.com.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m hoping one of the artists will be inspired to carve Titanic in ice,&rdquo; Kellogg Joslyn said. &ldquo;That would be wonderful.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The World&rsquo;s Largest TITANIC Museum Attraction is Branson&rsquo;s new landmark tourist destination. The 17,000 square foot, ship-shaped structure &#8211; built half scale to Titanic&rsquo;s original size &#8211; towers more than 100 feet above its anchored position on Highway 76. A 90-minute, self-guided tour covers 20 galleries on two decks where more than 400 priceless artifacts that once belonged to Titanic&rsquo;s passengers or crew are on display. None of the artifacts were retrieved from the ocean&rsquo;s floor. A creative mix of music from the period is accompanied by dramatic lighting, ambient sound, photographs, video and hands-on devices that give visitors the sensation of being an original passenger on Titanic&rsquo;s 1912 maiden voyage.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Photo from NICA Web Site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nica.org\/galleries\/gallery.html\">Photo Gallery<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&#8217;s best ice sculptors will compete at the Titanic Museum Attraction&#8217;s outdoor entertainment center on January 13, 2007 in this National Ice Carving Association, NICA, sanctioned competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows-attractions-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}