by Susan | Sep 18, 2023 | Monuments
After the War of 1812, tensions between the U.S. and Britain were still high. One reason was militarization of the Great Lakes. U.S. Minister and future president John Quincy Adams had proposed the idea of disarmament of the Great Lakes; the British government, liking...
by Susan | Aug 14, 2023 | Monuments
On August 28, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the City of Annapolis unveiled what it claims is the first memorial to the “foot soldiers” of the March. They define foot soldiers as the 250,000 ordinary citizens who marched in the...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2023 | Monuments
Located in Marsh Plaza on the campus of Boston University, Free at Last is an abstract sculpture made of rust-covered sheets of hammered Cor-Ten steel welded together to form a flock of fifty doves in flight. Each dove represents one of the fifty states. The sculpture...
by Susan | Jul 17, 2023 | Monuments
The Good Darky (also called Uncle Jack) is a 1927 statue of an unnamed, elderly African American man. Originally erected in Natchitoches, Louisiana, it stood there until 1968, but is now on the grounds of the Louisiana State University Rural Life Museum in Baton...
by Susan | Jul 3, 2023 | Monuments
This sculpture is inside a 60-foot circular state park, the second smallest state park in California, on the Sonoma Coast. Also known as ‘Madonna of Peace’ and ‘The Expanding Universe,’ the 93-foot sculpture dominates the cliff and is visible...
