by Susan | Nov 23, 2015 | Monuments
This Beaux Arts-style domed building, which also serves as the Elk’s headquarters, was built in 1926. The two friezes, composed of more than seventy figures carved in low relief, are just above a legend in Gothic script that reads The Triumphs of Peace...
by Susan | Nov 16, 2015 | Monuments
In Peace Pilgrim Park you will find a serpentine waterway, a peace pole, a butterfly garden, a gazebo, picnic benches, memorial plaque/stone, and a few acres of grass to wonder around and explore. This park is maintained by the Friends of Peace Pilgrim in her memory....
by Susan | Nov 9, 2015 | Monuments
During World War I, the Irish — unionists and nationalists, Protestants and Catholics — fought side-by-side in the trenches as part of the British forces Here in Messines, site of a 1917 battle, the Irish not only look back to memorialize those who died in that war,...
by Susan | Nov 2, 2015 | Monuments
The Madre del Mundo Statue was created by artist/potter/sculptor Marsha Gomez; she designed the Madre to be inclusive of all women, so each could see herself in the image, whether African-American, Asian, American Indian, Hispanic or white. Many see the image as Mary;...
by Susan | Oct 26, 2015 | Monuments
Standing outside the Gloucester County Courthouse, the bronze statue of an unarmed soldier holds aloft an American flag. Commissioned by the county’s veteran’s commission, it was sculpted by Deptford, NJ artist Frank A. Seder Jr., who said he hoped his...
by Susan | Oct 19, 2015 | Monuments
Founded in 1993, the Peace Garden, situated along the Susquehanna River in the two blocks just north of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence, is a collaboration between the city of Harrisburg and the Harrisburg-Hershey chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility....
