by Susan | Jun 29, 2020 | Monuments
Behind the Vereins Kirche is this statue group commemorating the treaty between the German settlers and the Comanche Indians. It was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1997 as a part of the city’s 150th anniversary. Comanche chiefs Buffalo Hump, Santa Anna and others met with...
by Susan | Jun 15, 2020 | Monuments
In 2000 this was designated as the official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was dedicated on May 30, 1934 in Veteran’s Memorial Park. On the front of the base is a bronze plaque with the relief sculpture of a mourning woman with her head...
by Susan | Jun 13, 2020 | Monuments
This commemorative work announces the entrance to East Austin and honors the spirit and philosophies of civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez. Three different lighting programs are designed to correspond to important dates in Chavez’s life. The base of the...
by Susan | Jun 8, 2020 | Monuments
A statue of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was unveiled in her hometown of Ruleville, Mississippi in 2012. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who was evicted when she registered to vote, was an American voting and women’s rights activist, community...
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...
