by Susan | Apr 23, 2018 | Monuments
The Detroit Evening News was founded in 1873 by newspaper tycoon James E. Scripps; in 1916, architect Albert Kahn was hired to design a new home for its operations. The Lafayette Boulevard facade features four statues by Corrado Parducci and five panels spelling out...
by Susan | Apr 16, 2018 | Monuments
Erected in 1922, below the column which lists the name of the fallen of World War I, stands an orphan in bronze pointing to an inscription ‘Maudite soit la guerre’ (war be damned, or cursed be war.) Feelings ran so high that the memorial was not officially inaugurated...
by Susan | Apr 9, 2018 | Monuments
The Albany County Crime Victims Memorial, installed in 1996, is located in downtown Academy Park. The three standing stones are engraved with the words Truth, Hope and Justice. The center medallion reads: “Justice can be secured only if those who are not...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2018 | Monuments
In 1996, when the Reverend Fr. William J. Bausch retired from St. Marys Parish in Colts Neck– a small town about 12 miles inland from the Jersey Shore — he gifted his congregation with a statue of Dorothy Day. Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was the founder of the...
by Susan | Mar 25, 2018 | Monuments
This Cesar Chavez mural was dedicated on Cinco de Mayo (May 5) 1995 when SFSU renamed the student union as the Cesar Chavez Student Center. To learn about the symbolism, including the dove which represents nonviolence, hover over the larger image of the mural below....
by Susan | Mar 19, 2018 | Monuments
In the waning days of World War II, Würzburg, a city of no military but great historical importance, was reduced to a smoldering ruin in a British fire-bomb attack. Five years before, the Germans rained down the same fate on the English city of Coventry, destroying...
