Statues: The People They Salute
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Well, it’s tomorrow 😉 Here’s the answer…
ANSWER to yesterday’s 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸DAILY QUIZ🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The Lincoln Memorial was sculpted by Daniel Chester French. What famous sculpture was his first? Where is it located?
Daniel Chester French sculpted the Minute Man statue located in Concord, Massachusetts. 22-year-old French won the contest to create a monument for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Concord which was fought April 19, 1775. The first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” is inscribed on the pedestal.
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
A few summers ago I visited Chesterwood, French’s studio in the mountains of Massachusetts, which was an amazing place to visit. There I saw a clay model of the Minute Man. Shown is the picture of it...a farmer who left his plow and picked up his musket to defend his land and liberty. When French was researching for the statue, he did make sketches of some of the descendants of Isaac Davis of Acton who was killed at the Bridge during the battle. (I plan on doing a future post about Isaac Davis.🇺🇸)
The statue is the logo for the National Guard, and is the one shown on the 2000 “Massachusetts” quarter.
Diana Erbio is a freelance writer and author of “Coming to America: A Girl Struggles to Find her Way in a New World”. Read more in her series Statues: The People They Salute visit The Table of Contents and the Facebook Page. (I’ll be adding to the Substack Table of Contents as I transfer the Blog Posts. Please subscribe to this Substack 😊🇺🇸🤓)
I had to look it up, so I cheated on the quiz and won’t give it away.
For what it’s worth, I love history and I am a sculptor, so I am so very appreciative that you include artists name with their works.
I was told, when I did a memorial bronze for our local city to honor its founders, I was told by local officials that it would be my legacy and that everyone would know me. I was gracious and thanked them, then asked them who the sculptors were that did the Statue of Liberty and Mt Rushmore. Of course they didn’t know.
So we artists really get our gratification from knowing that people appreciate what we created.
Thank you for this series.
Another nice history lesson. Careful you are weaving into Tara's Lane. Lol.