by Susan | Jun 20, 2022 | Monuments
The plaque reads: Suffering Humanity. Constructed of welded steel, this 200 pound, six foot tall sculpture was begun in 1968. Haunted by the realization that this work should speak to no particular war, no particular race, but to all wars and all humanity –...
by Susan | Jun 13, 2022 | Monuments
This “Christ of Peace” was designed by the sculptor Rubén Martínez in honor of the Peace Accords of Chapultepec, signed in 1992, which ended a decade-long civil war. It was unveiled in 1994 during the Central American Sports Games that took place in the city of San...
by Susan | Jun 6, 2022 | Monuments
In 2018 TerraKulture, a cultural arts center in Lagos, partnered with the Nigerian government to simultaneously erect 19 new monuments “to boost the aesthetic landscape of the State…and further place the State on global tourism scene and the hub of Africa...
by Susan | May 30, 2022 | Monuments
Dedicated in 2005, the monument features 18-foot tall bronze statues of three dikgosi, or chiefs, who played important roles in Botswana’s independence: Khama III ( Bamangwato people ), Sebele I (Kwena people), and Bathoen I (Ngwaketse people.) The three chiefs...
by Susan | May 23, 2022 | Monuments
Although the headline highlights the Peace Wall/Moon Gate, this entry actually features a plethora of peace installations in the Honda Outdoor Sculpture Garden surrounding the Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center at Bluffton University (formerly Central Mennonite College)...
by Susan | May 16, 2022 | Monuments
This statue was unveiled in Heald Square on December 15, 1941, the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights. It shows George Washington in his Revolutionary War uniform shaking hands with English-born Robert Morris on his right, and Polish-Jewish emigre...
by Susan | May 11, 2022 | San Antonio insider
You can still observe traces of San Antonio’s elaborate colonial-era irrigation system of dams, gates and canals. Together, these are known as known as acequias (pronounced a-SAY-key-as.) They irrigated the labores (pronounced la-BORE-ays, meaning fields) and...
by Susan | May 11, 2022 | San Antonio insider
The statue of the founder and long-time president of the American Federation of Labor was commissioned by the AFL-CIO in 1982 to celebrate a national convention that was being held in San Antonio. The city approved a small bust on a pedestal and was surprised —...
by Susan | May 11, 2022 | San Antonio insider
Joske’s, a home-grown department store chain, started business in Main Plaza in 1867 and operated there until 1873. Julius Joske sold the store when he returned to Berlin, but came back to San Antonio with his family and opened a new Joske’s on Alamo...
by Susan | May 11, 2022 | San Antonio insider
El Camino Real de los Tejas (also known as “The King’s Highway”) stretches 2,500 miles from colonial Mexico City through Texas and ends in Natchitoches, Louisiana. This trail provided the only primary overland route from Mexico across the Río...
