by Susan | May 9, 2016 | Monuments
On the second of February of 1920 Jaan Poska, Ants Piip, Mait Püüman, Julius Seljamaa, and Jaan Soots sat down with their Russian counterparts Adolf Joffe and Isidor Gukovsky and signed the Treaty of Tartu, also known as the Tartu Peace Treaty, or Tartu Rahu in...
by Susan | May 2, 2016 | Monuments
The legend of John Henry, the “steel-drivin’ man” who beat the newfangled steel drill in a contest of strength and then died from exhaustion, is probably based on a real person, claimed by West Virginia as happening at the Great Bend Tunnel of the C&O...
by Susan | Apr 25, 2016 | Monuments
The Kinder Mass Trespass was an act of civil disobedience by young men from Manchester and Sheffield intended to secure free access to England’s mountains and moorlands. The ramblers walked from Bowden Bridge Quarry to climb the hill called Kinder Scout in the...
by Susan | Apr 18, 2016 | Monuments
This sculpture, which portrays a dove descending to earth with the spirit of peace, symbolized by the Madonna standing inside a tear shaped canopy, supported by a base of reclining lambs was designed by cubist Jacques Lipchitz. It is in the plaza between the...
by Susan | Apr 11, 2016 | Monuments
This monument, featuring a German artillery shell, was erected on the grounds of Rollins College on November 11, 1938. In March of the next year Rollins hosted a world peace conference (along with the Church Peace Union and the World Alliance for International...
by Susan | Apr 4, 2016 | Monuments
Edwards Hicks was a Quaker sign painter, best known today for his “ornamental” paintings, ” especially the motif known as “The Peaceable Kingdom,” which illuminates Isaiah 11: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the...
