Saline artist receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Yes Virginia, even artists live in Saline. The small town is recognizing one of its own, Taylor Jacobsen, with a lifetime achievement award for his work as an artist, gardener, cook, history buff and preservationist.

 

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By all accounts, Taylor Jacobsen is a modern renaissance man.

 

"He's a jack-of-all-trades," said his childhood friend, Wayne Clements. "I don't know what he can't do."

 

The funny thing is, Clements isn't exaggerating.

 

The recipient of this year's Saline Salutes Lifetime Achievement Award, Jacobsen is an artist, a gardener, a cook, a history buff and a preservationist.

 

He has had his talented hands in some of the most significant, historical preservation projects in Saline.

 

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