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...
by Susan | Mar 30, 2020 | Monuments
Across the street from the Old Cook County Hospital stands a statue of Louis Pasteur, the Frenchman remembered for his breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases and the discovery of of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and...
by Susan | Mar 23, 2020 | Monuments
This student-funded statue of civil rights crusader Cesar Chavez was unveiled on the West Mall area of the University of Texas campus in 2007. The bronze statue shows Chavez facing west, with a flag. His left arm is draped over the short flag pole, which rests on his...
by Susan | Mar 16, 2020 | Monuments
In 1835 a group of 172 slaves from America chose to gain their freedom on the shore of Barr’s Bay Park. In 2010 a sculpture was unveiled to commemorate the event. As a plaque at the base of the statue explains: THE BERMUDA DIASPORA HERITAGE TRAIL {Globe With...
by Susan | Mar 9, 2020 | Monuments
Spanish artist Santiago Sierra premiered a giant piece of rock called ‘The Black Cone, Monument To Civil Disobedience’ in front Iceland’s parliament in January, 2012. Sierra cracked the rock with a black cone, which “alludes to black cone-shaped hats that condemned...
by Susan | Mar 2, 2020 | Monuments
“When your children shall ask you in time to come, saying, what mean these twelve stones, then you shall tell them how you made it over.” Joshua 4: 21-22 The verse inscribed on this stone monument near the Edmund Pettus Bridge refers the Israelites...
