by Susan | Feb 15, 2016 | Monuments, Uncategorized
Building for Peace was a recognized club of the Brandeis Student Union whose mission was to construct a peace monument on campus that would serve as a physical testament to the universality of peace and the diversity at the university. The club was comprised of the...
by Susan | Feb 8, 2016 | Monuments
A new monument in Madison, Wisconsin contradicts an old jingoistic slogan that proclaims no secular person could, or would, give their lives on the battlefield in the name of the United States. The old aphorism “There are no atheists in foxholes,” has served to spark...
by Susan | Feb 1, 2016 | Monuments
As you enter the city across Craigavon Bridge, the first thing you see is the Hands Across the Divide monument. This striking bronze sculpture by Maurice Harron of two men reaching out to each other symbolizes the spirit of reconciliation and hope for the future; it...
by Susan | Jan 25, 2016 | Monuments
The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory was established in 1952 at the height of the Cold War to meet urgent national security needs by advancing nuclear weapons science and technology. In 1982 a chemist named Leon Smith was dying of cancer and wrote a letter to the editor...
by Susan | Jan 18, 2016 | Monuments
The gift of a Polish billionaire in 2008, the Tolerance Monument is an outdoor sculpture located in a park near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem. Etched on a stone at the entrance to the park are the following words: “The monument is in the form of two halves of a...
by Susan | Jan 11, 2016 | Monuments
Is this a peace monument? You decide. The sculpture consists of an iron beam pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center held up by two stainless steel hands. The hands holding it up are constructed from 2,976 individually crafted stainless steel birds, each...
