by Susan | Jun 1, 2020 | Monuments
Rachel Carson (1907-1964), an environmental conservationist, author and scientist, is recognized as the mother of the modern environmental movement. Her 1960 book “Silent Spring” details the ecological hazards of post-WWII chemical pesticides. Carson’s...
by Susan | May 28, 2020 | Monuments
In the late 1980s, a young girl on a class trip walking Boston’s Freedom Trail asked, “Where are the women?” She sparked a movement to make the landscape of Boston more inclusive. The Boston Women’s Memorial honors three important contributors to Boston’s rich...
by Susan | May 25, 2020 | Monuments
In retaliation for the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi official, every adult male from the village of Lidice (22 km NW of Prague) was rounded up and shot. The women and children were sent to separate concentration camps. The village itself was completely razed....
by Susan | May 18, 2020 | Monuments
Pax, a monument to Aristide Briand, is to the left of the front gate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Quai d’Orsay. It is by Paul Landowski and was dedicated in 1937. The central relief shows peace sheltering a family; the robed figures represent the...
by Susan | May 11, 2020 | Monuments
On August 27, 1956, twelve African American young people from Clinton, Tennessee, became the first students to desegregate a public high school in the American South. This was a year before the more famous integration of Little Rock High School in Arkansas. Black...
by Susan | May 4, 2020 | Monuments
The RMS Lusitania, a ocean liner of the Cunard Line, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915 and sunk 18 minutes later. 1,198 were killed; there were 761 survivors. Many of the survivors and bodies of the deceased were rescued or recovered by local fishermen from...
by Susan | Apr 27, 2020 | Monuments
The Nicollet Lanterns feature twelve original poems by Sagirah Shahid, Moheb Soliman, R. Vincent Moniz, Jr. (Nu’Eta) and Junauda Petrus. Each poet wrote three poems of approximately 100 words. The lanterns, created by Blessing Hancock, were part of a 2015-2017...
by Susan | Apr 20, 2020 | Monuments
The Memorial to the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran is a peaceful, recessed 2-acres on Massachusetts Avenue across from the British Embassy, halfway up the hill which connects the city’s principal mosque with the National Cathedral. Congress set aside the land, and...
by Susan | Apr 13, 2020 | Monuments
Installed in 2014, the 40 feet high, 30 feet wide and 100 feet in the sky poem for peace was created by poet and playwright Lemn Sissay MBE, and is permanently displayed at the University of Huddersfield’s creative arts building. The poem is also displayed at the...
by Susan | Apr 6, 2020 | Monuments
A statue commemorating the life of war poet Wilfred Owen was unveiled marking the 100th anniversary of Owen’s death. He was raised in this town, across the Mersey River from Liverpool, before dying in action aged 25, just one week before the end of the First World War...
