Editing Frazee, Minnesota (section)

==The world's largest turkey==
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[[File:Frazee turkey "Big Tom".jpg|thumb|right|"Big Tom" in 2018]]
Frazee is best known as the home of Big Tom: the World's Largest Turkey.<ref name='city page'>{{cite web|url=http://www.frazeecity.com/|title=Official Website for the City of Frazee, Minnesota}}</ref> Frazee has long been part of the [[turkey (bird)|turkey]] industry. In 1984, turkey growers and committee members put up a giant turkey statue to honor the town. For $20,000, the group commissioned artist [[Shell Scott]] to construct the statue, which was built on a metal frame and covered in cement, [[fiberglass]], cardboard, and [[Thermal insulation|insulation]]. The statue, named "Big Tom", was finished in 1986 and stood {{convert|22|ft|m}} tall, earning Frazee the title "Home of the world's largest turkey."

Due to Big Tom's physical makeup, the statue needed frequent repairs. There were also complaints that Big Tom was not proportioned like a real turkey. The area committee decided it needed a new Big Tom and commissioned artist Dave Oswald. On July 1, 1998, during the removing process for Big Tom, the statue caught fire from a [[cutting torch]] that was being used to remove the wings.

On September 19, 1998, a new statue arrived in Frazee in three pieces on a [[flatbed trailer]]. The new "Big Tom" took eight hours to assemble, standing over {{convert|20|ft|m}} tall and {{convert|17|ft|m}} wide. It weighs over 5,000 pounds, having 1,000 pounds of steel reinforcement. It has 3,000 to 4,000 separate fiberglass feathers, which took the D.W.O. Fiberglass Company over 2,000 hours to make.