World War I Memorial - Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps - Hamilton, Bermuda

Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps Monument

Hamilton, Bermuda

N 32° 17.741 W 064° 47.076

Short Description: 

A monument honoring the soldiers of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps who died during World War I is located in Victoria Park, Hamilton, Bermuda.

Long Description:

A 15' high brownstone obelisk located in the center of four 2' high brownstone obelisks and surrounded by chains has two bronze plaques with a list the members of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps who died in The Great War. A third side has a Maltese cross medal within a wreath.

The plaques are inscribed:

TO THE 

GLORIOUS MEMORY

OF THE MEMBERS

OF THE BERMUDA

VOLUNTEER RIFLE 

CORPS

WHO FELL 

IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

ADCOCK C.C.

ARNOLD W.H.

BAKER H.J.

BRIDGES H.F.

CANNON J.A.

COOPER J.

DEAN S.G.

DOE A.E.

FARRELL P.J.

HARRIOTT B.M.

HOLLIS E.K.

KYME W.R.

MARSHALL F.G.

MARTIN W.C.

MILLET H.W.

NOBLE H.S.

O'CONNOR J.A.

OUTERBRIDGE B.W.

PAUSEY F.

PITCHER E.L.

PITMAN B.M.

PLATTEN A.R.

ROBERTSON C.G.

RYDER W.G.

SHEPPARD A.L.

SMITH K.N.

SMITH D.G.

STOLLARD G.

TATEM P.A.

TITE W.J.

TRIMINGHAM W.G.

TRIMINGHAM J.L.

TUCKER ST. G.M.

TUCKER G.F.

TUCKER E.E.

TURINI B.L.

WADSON S.P.

WATINGTON H.J.

WHITE W.A.

WHITECROSS H.C.

THEY GAVE THE MOST

THAT MAN CAN GIVE

LIFE ITSELF. FOR GOD

FOR KING AND COUNTRY

ERECTED BY THE CORPS

Soldiers from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps were the first colonial troops to arrive in France when 87 soldiers joining the Lincolnshire Regiment on June 15, 1915. A second group of 38 members of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps also joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in October, 1916.

Relief Sculpture: Mourning Victory at the Melvin Memorial - Concord, MA

Mourning Victory

at the 

Melvin Memorial

Concord, MA

N 42° 27.816 W 071° 20.608

Short  Description: 

The sculpture Mourning Victory is part of the Melvin Memorial, a cenotaph honoring the memory of three brothers Privates Asa, John and Samuel Melvin who died during the Civil War. It is located in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA

Long Description:

In 1908 James Melvin commissioned Daniel Chester French to create a memorial to his three brothers, Asa, John, and Samuel, all of whom died while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. Melvin Memorial contains a relief sculpture "Mourning Victory" which is considered to be one of the finest sculptures by the artist. The Melvin Memorial is was dedicated on June 16, 1909.

A 9.75' high rectangular marble slab is in the center of a 12.25' by 22' by 16.5' base. The relief sculpture "Mourning Victory" is carved into an upright marble slab. An allegorical partially clad female figure surrounded with a large drape. She is lifting the drape away from her head with her right hand. In her left hand she holds a leafed branch. The sculpture is above a platform with two low walls forming the back and sides of the memorial. There is a bench on each side. Below "Mourning Victory" is the inscription:

IN MEMORY OF THREE BROTHERS BORN IN CONCORD 

WHO AS PRIVATE SOLDIERS GAVE THEIR 

LIVES IN THE WAR TO SAVE THE COUNTRY

THIS MEMORIAL IS PLACED HERE BY THEIR SURVIVING

BROTHER, HIMSELF A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN THE SAME WAR.

"I WITH UNCOVERED HEAD

SALUTE THE SACRED DEAD

WHO WENT AND WHO RETURN NOT."

On the platform are three rectangular gray stone slabs, on for each brother, each with a bronze musket and wreath. They are inscribed:

ASA HEALD MELVIN

BORN SEPTEMBER 25, 1831

KILLED IN BATTLE BEFORE PETERSBURG VA.

JUNE 16, 1864

JOHN HEALD MELVIN

BORN JULY 27, 1841

DIED IN MILITARY HOSPITAL AT

FORT ALBANY VIRGINIA

OCTOBER 13, 1863

SAMUEL MELVIN

BORN APRIL 9, 1844

TAKEN PRISONER AT HARRISS FARM VA.

MAY 19, 1864

DIED AT ANDERSONVILLE GA.

SEPTEMBER 1864

Asa Heald Melvin was a private in Co. K, First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers Heavy Artillery. He was was killed in action in a charge on the enemy's lines at Petersburg, Va., on June 16, 1864. He is buried in an unknown grave.

John Heald Melvin was a private in Co. K, First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers Heavy Artillery. He died of disease at Fort Albany, Va., on Oct. 13, 1863. He is buried in a plot next to his parents elsewhere in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

Samuel Melvin was a private in Co. K, First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers Heavy Artillery. He was captured during the battle of Spottsylvania, VA, brought to Camp Sumter, Andersonville, GA where he died on September 25, 1864. He is buried there on Lot 9735.

Citizen Memorial: George Robert White Memorial - Boston, MA

George Robert White Memorial

Boston, MA

N 42° 21.320 W 071° 04.325

Short Description: 

The George Robert White Memorial is located in the north west corner of the Boston Public Garden in Boston, MA.

Long Description:

George Robert White was born and lived in Boston, MA. He began his career with the Weeks and Potter Drug Company as a boy and rose to become the president and owner of the firm later renamed the Potter Drug and Chemical Company. The companies signature product was the antibacterial soap "Cuticura".

George Robert White amassed a large fortune became a noted an American philanthropist. He supported many charitable organizations, including the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts General Hospital. After his death in 1922, he left an endowment of over $5,000,000 to the City of Boston which is now called the George Robert White Fund.

A 6' high bronze figure of a winged allegorical figure or angel created by Daniel Chester French stands on top of a 5' by 7' granite base. The sculpture sits in the center of a 20' diameter basin. The sculpture was installed in 1924.

The base of the sculpture is inscribed:

CAST THY BREAD 

UPON THE WATERS

FOR THOU SHALT FIND IT

AFTER MANY DAYS

ECCLES. XI I 

The rim of the basin is inscribed:

IN MEMORY OF GEORGE ROBERT WHITE 1847 - 1922

The base of the basin is inscribed:

A PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZEN 

WHOSE GREAT GIFT TO THE CITY OF BOSTON

PROVIDED FOR THE CREATION OF WORKS OF 

PUBLIC UTILITY AND BEAUTY FOR THE USE 

AND ENJOYMENT OF THE INHABITANTS

Civil Rights: Wendell Phillips Monument - Boston, MA

Wendell Phillips Monument

Boston, MA

N 42° 21.155 W 071° 04.110

Short Description:

A monument honoring abolitionist Wendell Phillips is located along  Boylston Street in the Boston Public Garden,  Boston, MA

Long Description:

An 8' by 2.75' wide  by 4' bronze sculpture of Boston orator and abolitionist Wendell Phillips  stands on a pink granite rectangular base and in front of a 12' high wall. The standing figure of Wendell Phillips pounding his right fist on top of a podium and holding a short length of chain in his proper The sculpture rests on a square base in front of a tall stone wall.The sculpture was created by Daniel Chester French and cast at the Jno. Williams, Inc. foundry in 1914. The architect was Henry Bacon and the contractor was the Presbrey-LeLand Company. The monument was dedicated on Dedicated July 4, 1915.


The front of the base is inscribed:

WENDELL PHILLIPS

1811-1884

PROPHET OF LIBERTY

CHAMPION OF THE SLAVE 

On front of wall behind the sculpture is inscribed:

WHETHER IN CHAINS OR IN LAURELS

LIBERTY KNOWS NOTHING BUT VICTORIES 

On the back of the wall is inscribed:

I LOVE INEXPRESSIBLY

THESE STREETS OF BOSTON

OVER WHOSE PAVEMENTS BY MOTHER HELD UP TENDERLY MY BABY FET

AN IF GOD GRANTS ME TIME ENOUGH

Wendell Phillips was born November 29, 1811 in Boston, MA. He was the son of Boston's first mayor, John Phillips. He became an ardent supporter of William Lloyd Garrison's and the campaign against slavery. A skilled orator, his passionate and reasoned arguments made him a leading voice against slavery.  He continued is work to advance the cause of civil rights for women and  native Americans after the Civil War. He died on February 2, 1884 and is buried in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston.

Philatelic Photograph: Minuteman Statue - Concord, MA

Concord Minuteman Statue

Concord, MA 

N 42° 28.131 W 071° 21.074

Short Description: 

The Concord Minuteman statue by Daniel Chester French is located at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts.

Long Description:

The Concord Minuteman is one of Daniel Chester French's most famous and beloved sculptures. It is located in Concord, MA next to the North Bridge on the west bank of the Concord River facing the bridge.

The 10 year long feud between the British government and the American colonists came to a climax as British regulars clashed with colonial militia and minutemen on April 19, 1775 at Lexington, Concord's North Bridge and on the road back to Boston. This led into the eight year war for independence. Many years later, Ralph Waldo Emerson used the phrase "the shot heard round the world" to describe the significance of this event.

This statue was placed to commemorate these events 100 years later. The statue was cast in bronze at the Ames Foundry in Chicopee, MA. The stamp was issued by the united States in 1925 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Citizen Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Mary Adams French - Stockbridge, MA

Daniel Chester French

and 

Mary Adams French

Stockbridge, MA

N 42° 16.957 W 073° 18.715

Short Description: 

A memorial to the famous artist Daniel Chester French and his wife Mary Adams French is located under the portico of St. Paul's Church at 29 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA.

Long Description:

Daniel Chester French and his wife Mary Adams French were parishioners of St. Paul's Church Episcopal Church when they were in residence at their summer estate and studio home in Stockbridge called Chesterwood. Their memorial is a 4' high by 2.5' wide casting of a sculpture of an angel on a 3' high square marble base. The sculpture was created by Daniel Chester French and is called Spirit of Life. The base is inscribed:

IN SWEET

REMEMBRANCE

DANIEL CHESTER

FRENCH

AND

MARY HIS WIFE

1949

Daniel Chester French (1850 - 1931) was a famous and prolific American sculptor. He was born in Exeter, NH on April 20, 1850. He studied anatomy and drawing, attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and studied in Florence, Italy in the studio of Thomas Ball. He gained great acclaim for his first sculpture - the Minuteman Statue at Concord, MA.

As his reputation grew he gained many important commissions. He is most famous for his seated sculpture of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. In 1888, he married is cousin Mary Adams French (1859 – 1939). Wikipedia lists the following works by Daniel Chester French:

Minute Man at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, (1874)

Bust of Major General William Francis Bartlett at Memorial Hall, Harvard University, (1881)

The John Harvard Monument, Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (1884)

Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. (1888),

Lewis Cass, National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C., (1889)

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell (1889), Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Thomas Starr King monument San Francisco, California, (1891)

Statue of the Republic, the colossal centerpiece of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. His 24-foot gilt-bronze reduced version made in 1918 survives in Chicago.

John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial, intersection of Boylston Street and Westland Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, (1897)

Rufus Choate memorial, Old Suffolk County Court House, Boston, Massachusetts, (1898)

Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, on the perimeter wall of Central Park, at 5th Avenue at 70th Street, opposite the Frick Collection, in New York City, (1900)

Commodore George H. Perkins Monument at the New Hampshire State House, Concord, New Hampshire (1902)

Alma Mater (1903), on the campus of Columbia University in New York City

Wendell Phillips Memorial, Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts

America, statue outside the National Museum of the American Indian at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, Manhattan, NYC (1907)

Casting Bread Upon the Waters - George Robert White Memorial, Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts

Melvin Memorial, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, Henry Bacon, architect
(1906–08)

Samuel Spencer, first president of Southern Railway, located in front of Goode Building (Norfolk Southern offices) on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, (1909).

August Meyer Memorial, 10th and The Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri (1909)

Statue of General James Oglethorpe located in Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia (1910)

Standing Lincoln at the Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, (1912)

Brooklyn and Manhattan, seated figures from the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, (1915)

Minuteman, Henry Bacon designer, Jno. Williams, Inc. (NY) founder, Danville, Illinois. (1915)

The Spirit of Life, memorial to Spencer Trask, in Saratoga Springs, New York at Congress Park, 1915

Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial (1914-22), executed by the Piccirilli Brothers.

Samuel Francis du Pont Memorial Fountain, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. (1921)

Alfred Tredway White Memorial, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Henry Bacon architect (1921)

Russell Alger Memorial Fountain, Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan (1921).

Gale Park War Memorial & Park, Exeter, New Hampshire (1922)

Bust of Washington Irving and reliefs of Boabdil and Rip Van Winkle for the Washington Irving Memorial, Irvington, New York, (1927)

Beneficence, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. (1930)

William Henry Seward Memorial in Florida, New York (1930)

Death and the Wounded Soldier aka Death and Youth, The Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire

James Woods, “Uncle Jimmy” Green, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. (1924)

Gen. William Franklin Draper, Draper Memorial Park, Milford, Massachusetts. (1912)

Famous Fictional Figures: Gertrude McFuzz - Springfield, MA

Gertrude McFuzz

Springfield, MA

N 42° 06.223 W 072° 35.133

Short Description: 

Gertrude McFuzz is an easily overlooked sculpture located at the Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden at the Quadrangle, 21 Edwards St., Springfield, MA.

Long Description:

Sitting on the top south corner of the Storyteller sculpture, a ten foot exact replica of the cover of the Dr. Seuss classic children's story "Oh, The Places You'll Go" with the complete text on the page side, is the Dr. Seuss character Miss Gertrude McFuzz.

Gertrude McFuzz is a 4' tall bronze sculpture created by Lark Dimond-Cates and cast at the Art Research & Technology, foundry. It was installed as part of the Sr. Seuss Sculpture Garden in 2004.

Miss Gertrude McFuzz a fictitious character in: Dr. Seuss' book Miss Gertrude McFuzz, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories and in the Broadway musical Seussical. She is a awkward female birdlike creature who has a She has a single curl of hair on the top of her head and is embarrassed by the single feather on her tail. In the book she is trying to grow her tail and her uncle, Dr. Dake, advises her to special berries to make her tale grow. She eats the entire vine and grown a tail so big she loses mobility. She rescued when other birds pluck the feathers. Then she realizes she is not as ugly as she thinks.

The is musical Seussical she plays a leading role. After plucking her tail feathers she goes to rescue Horton the elephant and promises to help him care for the newly hatched elephant bird.

Character Type: Literature

Character originator: Theodor Seuss Geisel writing as Dr. Seuss

World War I Monument: Spirit of the American Doughboy - Bethel, CT

Spirit of the American Doughboy

Bethel, CT

N 41° 22.282 W 073° 24.672

Quick Description:

 A copy of E.M. Viquesney's statue Spirit of the American Doughboy is located in P.T. Barnum Square north of Greenwood Street in the center of Bethel, CT.

Long Description:

A pressed copper version (copyright 1920) of E.M. Viquesney's "The Spirit of the American Doughboy" was installed in 1928 in he center of Bethel, CT. A 7' by 3' by 3' copper sculpture is placed on a 6' high by 30" square granite base. The sculpture depicts a World War I infantryman holding a grenade in his raised right hand and holding a rifle, horizontally, by his side in his left hand. At the back corners are a pair of tree stumps.

The front of the base is inscribed:

ERECTED BY

THE 

COMMUNITY 

ASSOCIATION

OF BETHEL

IN HONOR OF HER

WAR VETERANS

At the bottom of the base, in raise numbers, is the date:

1928 

Revolutionary War: General Nathanael Greene - Providence, RI

General Nathanael Greene

Providence, RI

N 41° 49.837 W 071° 24.895

Quick Description: 

A statue of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene is located on the steps of the Capitol Building in Providence, RI

Long Description:

A life size bronze statue of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene, by sculptor Henri Schonhardt, is on the east steps of the Capitol Building. The statue was cast by the Gorham Manufacturing Company and the architectural firm was McKim, Mead & White. The statue was dedicated in 1931.

General Greene is shown standing while wearing a military uniform including a jacket with shoulder epaulets, boots and a long cape. He is holding a tri-cornered hat and a pair of gloves at his side in his right hand. His left hand is grasping the hilt of a sword. The single word GREENE is inscribed on the marble base.

Nathanael Greene was born on August 7, 1742 in Warwick, RI. In 1770 he was elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly. In 1774, he helped organize a local militia, the Kentish Guards. At the start of the Revolutionary War he was promoted from private to Major General of the Rhode Island Army of Observation that was formed in response to the siege of Boston. He became a brigadier of the Continental Army on June 22, 1775.

General Greene took command of Boston, from General Washington, after the British evacuated the city in March 1776. He was promoted the rank of major general in August 1776 and was put in command of the Continental Army on Long Island. Illness prevented him from actually taking part in the disastrous Battle of Long Island.

He retreated to across the East River to New York City along with the remainder of the Continental Army. Moving into New Jersey, Greene commanded one of the two American columns at the Battle of Trenton. Next he commanded the reserve at the Battle of Brandywine and then assumed the position of Quartermaster General for Washington's army at Valley Forge, in March 1778.

General Greene obtained his greatest fame when he took command over all troops from Delaware to Georgia. In effect becoming second-in-command to George Washington of the Continental Army. During the southern campaign he achieved a series of victories and forced British General Charles Cornwallis to abandon the Carolinas and head for Virginia. Cornwallis eventually surrendered to Washington at Yorktown.

War of 1812: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry - Providence, RI

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry

Providence, RI

N 41° 49.836 W 071° 24.906

Short Description: 

A statue of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry is located on the steps of the Rhode Island Capitol Building in Providence, RI.

Long Description:

A life size bronze statue of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry depicts the naval hero in full dress military uniform. he is standing with his left arm reaching across his body and holding a sword, downward in his right hand.

The statue was created by William Walcutt and cast at the Gorham Manufacturing Company. The firm of McKim, Mead & White were the architects. The statue is a bronze copy of a marble statue, created in 1860 , and installed in Gordon Park, Cleveland, OH. It was erected on the Capitol steps in 1928. Below the statue is the single word PERRY.

Oliver Hazard Perry was born in South Kingstown, RI to Navy Captain Christopher Raymond Perry and Sarah Wallace Alexander on August 23, 1785. His naval career began in 1799, at age 13, when he was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy.

In 1800 he served aboard his fathers frigate the USS General Green and saw action off the coast of Haiti during the Haitian slave rebellion. He then transferred to the USS Adams during the First Barbary War against the Barbary pirates in the off the coast of Tripoli, in Africa. He rose in rank to become commander of the USS Nautilus and participated in Battle of Derne, in present day Libya, the first land battle the United States fought overseas.

During the War of 1812 he was in command of the United States naval fleet on Lake Erie. On September 10, 1813, he led a decisive victory over the British Navy at the Battle of Lake Erie. His victories against the British earned him the title "Hero of Lake Erie".

In 1814, Congress awarded Perry the Congressional Gold Medal and promoted him to the rank of captain. He contracted yellow fever while aboard the USS Nonsuch off the coast of Trinidad. and died on his birthday, August 23, 1819. He was 34 years old.

Grave of a Famous Person: Roger Williams - Providence, RI

Grave of Roger Williams

Providence, RI

N 41° 49.788 W 071° 24.434

Short Description: 

The remains of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island and advocate for religious freedom, are located in Prospect Terrace Park overlooking Providence, RI.

Long Description:

Roger Williams died on April 1, 1683. In 1860, the people of Providence decided to create a memorial to the founder of Rhode Island. According to the National Park Service website "Community leaders went in search of Williams's remains. When they dug up the spot where they believed the remains to be, they found only nails, teeth and bone fragments. They also found an apple tree root. The tree root looked as if it had taken on the form of Roger Williams. It had traveled the length of Williams's body, splitting at the hips, bending at the knees and turning up at the feet." The remains were placed in a mausoleum in the North Burial Ground.

Before the 300th anniversary of the founding of Providence in 1936, the remains were retrieved from the mausoleum and placed in an urn kept by the Rhode Island Historical Society. They were then placed in this monument erected in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration at Prospect Terrace Park in Providence.

The remains are marked by a 15' high granite statue of Roger Williams inside a 27' high granite arch on a bluff overlooking Providence, RI. The statue was sculpted by Leo Friedlander and dedicated on June 29, 1939. Roger Williams is shown standing and wearing a buttoned coat, boots and a cape. His left arm by his side and his right arm outstretched horizontally.

Because of his belief is religious freedom, Roger Williams was forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He founded the present state of Rhode Island specifically to establish a haven for people who were persecuted for their religious beliefs

Roger Williams was born in London, England, probably in 1603. Originally a member of the Church of England, he became a Puritan and thereby gave up any chance for a position in the Anglican Church. He graduated from Cambridge University, married Mary Barnard in 1629, and, together, they emigrated to Boston in 1631.

He soon found himself in disagreement with the prevailing Puritan philosophy regarding religious freedom and the relationship between church and state. He believed that the Church of England was corrupt beyond redemption, espoused freedom of choice in the practice of religion, and espoused complete separation of church and state. In 1635 he was ordered to appear before the General Court of Massachusetts to explain his erroneous and dangerous opinions. As a result, the Court declared that he should be removed from his church position. Later that same year he was tried and convicted of sedition and heresy.

In 1636, Roger Williams and a number of his followers attempted to leave Massachusetts by settling near Plymouth; but they were told that they were still in Massachusetts and that they must move west beyond the Seekonk River, which was beyond the Massachusetts Bay charter. They went to Narragansett territory where they purchased land from the native Narragansetts. Roger Williams named the settlement "Providence" because he felt that God's Providence had brought him there. He declared it to be a haven for those distressed of conscience and soon many other like-minded dissenters took up settlement. In 1644 he published his most famous book The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience - A Plea For Religious Liberty in which he espoused his doctrine of religious freedom that: "No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will."

In 1647, the four towns around Narragansett Bay - Newport and Portsmouth located on the island of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations of Providence and Warwick on the mainland, united to form a single government under the principle of liberty of conscience. The colony became a safe haven for people persecuted for their beliefs including: Baptists, Quakers, and Jews. In 1654, Roger Williams was elected the President of the colony.

Freestanding Arch - Amazing World of Dr. Seuss

Amazing World of Dr. Seuss

Springfield, MA

N 42° 06.248 W 072° 35.176

Short Description: 

Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Arch is located at the entrance to the soon to be opened The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum at the Quadrangle Museum Complex at 21 Edwards Street, Springfield, MA.

Long Description:

A large Seussian style blue arch which is inscribed at the top in red letters The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss has been installed in front of Dr. Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum which is scheduled to open June 2017. The 20' high arch is in the whimsical form of a Dr. Seuss illustration. Two pink trees with black and white trunks sprout from the upper part of the arch. The underside is decorated with broad red and white stripes. A medallion with the image of the Cat-In-The-Hat decorated the top of the back of the arch.

Historic Figure: Juan Pablo Duarte - Providence, RI

Juan Pablo Duarte

Providence, RI

N 41° 47.466 W 071° 24.577

Quick Description: 

A monument honoring a founding father of the Dominican Republic, Juan Pablo Duarte, is located on Hawthorne Avenue in Roger Williams Park, Providence RI.

Long Description:

A life-size metal bust of founding father of the Dominican Republic, Juan Pablo Duarte rests on a 5' high trapezoidal stone base. Duarte is depicted from the mid-chest. He is wearing a suit jacket, vest, shirt, and bow tie. This monument was dedicated by the Dominican community in Rhode Island.

The front of the base is inscribed in Spanish and in English:

Juan Pablo Duarte

Padre de la Dominicana

Founding Father of the Dominican Republic

26 DE ENERO DE 1813

15 DE JULIO DE 1876

The back of the base is inscribed in Spanish and in English:

"Por desesperada que sea la causa de mi Patria;

siempre sera la causa del honor y siemper estare

dispuesto a honrar su ensena con mi sangre"

Juan Pablo Duarte

"No matter how desperate my Homeland's cause

it will always be the cause of honor and I will always

be prepared to honor the ensign with my blood."

Juan Pablo Duarte is a hero of the Dominican Republic and its struggle to achieve independence from Haitian rule in 1844. He both inspired and financed the Dominican War of Independence.

The present day Dominican Republic was once the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo. In December 1821 the elite class of Santo Domingo declared its independence from Spain. In 1822, neighboring Haiti moved to unify the Island of Hispaniola under Haitian Rule. The Haitain occupation became unpopular and, in 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte, along with Matías Ramón Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (who are also honored on the sides of the monument), started a resistance movement called La Trinitaria ("The Trinity"). On February 27, 1844 the rebel forces took control of the main fortress in the capital city of Santo Domingo and proclaimed independence from Haiti.

In 1845 General Pedro Santana, who wanted to revert to Spanish rule, achieved power and exiled Duarte and his family to Venezuela. There his family prospered. The Dominican Republic made him Dominican Consul in Venezuela and provided with a pension to honor him for his service. He died in Caracas, Venezuela on July 15, 1876 at aged 63.

Citizen Memorial: Guglielmo Marconi Memorial - Providence, RI

Guglielmo Marconi Memorial

Providence, RI

N 41° 47.203 W 071° 24.551

Short Description: 

The Guglielmo Marconi Memorial is located Fredrick C. Green Memorial Blvd. near Carr Street, in Roger Williams Park, Providence, RI.

Long Description:

An 18' high by 4' square granite monument is erected, by the Italian-American community of Providence, in Roger Williams Park to honor the inventor of wireless telegraphy, Gugliemo Marconi. The monument was created by Oresto DiSaia and dedicated on October 25, 1953.

The top of the monument contains a frieze depicting wireless communication. The front has a relief sculpture of Marconi and the inscription:

MARCONI

TO

GUGLIELMO MARCONI

FATHER OF

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

A GRATEFUL GENERATION ERECTS THIS

MONUMENT IN THANKSGIVING FOR

THE WONDROUS GIFT OF AERIAL

COMMUNICATION WHICH HAS ENRICHED

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, FOSTERED

THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, BRINGING

TREASURES OF GREATER KNOWLEDGE

AND HAPPINESS INTO THE HEARTS

AND HOMES OF MANKIND 

Guglielmo Marconi was an electrical engineer of Italian and Irish. descent. He was born into a noble Italian family on April 25, 1874. He studied at the University of Bologna under physicist Augusto Righi, and at the Istituto Cavallero in Florence.

At age 20 he began his experiments with radio telegraphy as was able to send electrical signals wirelessly for short distances. He improved his methods and eventually was able to achieve wireless radio transmission over long distance and even across the Atlantic Ocean. This made ship to shore communication possible and later led to worldwide communication. In 1909, Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics his contributions to radio communications.

Civil Rights: Bicentennial of Haitian Independence - Providence, RI

Bicentennial of Haitian Independence Monument

Providence, RI

N 41° 47.352 W 071° 24.748

Short Description: 

A monument that commemorates the slave revolt that led to abolishment of slavery and Haitian independence from France is located in Memorial Plaza near Hawthorne Ave. in Roger Williams Park, Providence, RI

Long Description:

On January 1, 1804, as a result of the slave revolt and revolution of 1791 - 1804, Haiti declared its independent from France. It was the first black republic in the world and the first country in the Western hemisphere to completely abolish slavery.

A 12' tall by 4' square granite monument commemorates the efforts of two Haitian freedom fighters, Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, to achieve the end of slavery and independence of Haiti from France.

The southeast side of the two side monument is inscribed:

In Unity 

there is

Strength

HAITI

The Spirit of Freedom

1791 - 1804 Founding of Haiti

TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE AND

JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES

ARE THE TWIN AUTHORS OF THE FOUNDING 

OF HAITI. CONFIRMED IN THE CONSTITUTION

OF 1801, FIRST SYMBOL OF HAITIAN AUTONOMY

AND BY THE ACT OF INDEPENDENCE IN 1804

THE FINAL DECLARED OF HAITI'S FREEDOM

FROM FRANCE

TWO LEADERS OF DIFFERING CONVICTION AND

BELIEF TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE IS

IMMORTALIZED BY HIS FAITH IN THE IDEA

THAT LIBERTY CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT WORK.

WHILE JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES IS 

REMEMBERED FOR HIS DICTATE THAT ONE

MUST CHOOSE EITHER LIBERTY OF DEATH

Dedicated

August 14, 2005

The northwest side contains a bronze plaque with the images of Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the inscription:

The Bicentennial of Haitian 
Independence
Memorial Plaza
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In memory of two Haitian Freedom Fighters 
Born into slavery, Toussaint Louverture and 
Jean-Jacques Dessalines symbolized those who fought for 
the liberation of Saint Dominque from its colonial 
bonds between 1791-1804. Armed with the conviction 
that slavery and servitude had no justifiable place 
within human society in a civilized world, and under 
the banner of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, 
their devotion to democratic principles was realized 
in the creation of the Republic of Haiti after 13 years 
of constant struggle. Recognizing their critical 
leadership, we create this park dedicated to the 
Bicentennial of Haitian Independence, a project of: 
Lakay Foundation, Inc.

Dedicated August 14, 2005

Figurative Sculpture: Stone Eagle - Providence, RI

Stone Eagle

Providence, RI

N 41° 47.135 W 071° 24.324

Short Description: 

The Stone Eagle is located on the east side of Roger Williams Park along Fredrick C. Green Memorial Blvd. and opposite Montgomery Ave. in Providence, RI.

Long Description:

An 8.5' high by 17.5' long by 6.5' deep sculpture of a eagle stands on two round concrete platforms in a grassy area of Roger Williams Park. The painted concrete over a wire frame eagle was sculpted by Gail Lynch in 1976 and financed by a grant from the Arts Council. The huge eagle is depicted in the landing position with its talons outstretched and its wings and tail feathers extended. Its left wing slightly higher that the right wing.