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How to Make Money and Create Community with Monuments - Volume 1

The Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial Connects History and Community

Memorializing the Journey to America

Dedicated to the victims and survivors of Ireland’s “Great Famine” of 1845-1851, the Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial is located along the waterfront in Providence, Rhode Island. Featuring numerous statues, memorial plaques and other elements that commemorates the victims of the famine, it showcases what it means to personalize history in a way that connects […]

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Imagining a New Way to Engage Artists and Audiences at the Andres Institute of Art and Sculpture Garden

New England’s Largest Outdoor Sculpture Park

Located all across the trails of the Big Bear Mountain in Brookline, New Hampshire, the Andres Institute of Art sculpture park is an imaginative combination of art and nature that has captivated audiences from all over the region. The art and experiences that have been enabled on the mountains trials and all along the sculpture […]

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The Hannah Duston Memorial Represents a Piece of New Hampshire History

A Symbol of Frontier Heroism with a Complicated Modern Legacy

The Hannah Duston Memorial is a 35-foot statue in Boscawen, New Hampshire, that commemorates the legacy of Hannah Duston. Built on the very spot where her legend was born, the monument has come to represent a complicated legacy related to several eras of American history, highlighting the power that monuments can represent to various people […]

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The Lenin Statue Becomes Equal Parts History, Art and Culture for Seattle

From Slovenia to Seattle

The Lenin Statue is a literal relic of a different era, created for the communist republic of what was then Czechoslovakia. Transported across the world to the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, the piece has become one of Seattle’s most visible pieces of art. It has been able to drive considerable interest and activity to […]

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The Electric Lady Studio Guitar Transforms an Otherwise Nondescript Seattle Street and Storefront

The Jimi Hendrix Statue becomes part of the Capitol Hill community

Officially known as the Electric Lady Studio Guitar but more often referred to as the Jimi Hendrix Statue, a life-size bronze sculpture of Jimi Hendrix is located at the intersection of Broadway and Pine Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Like other statues that depict a famous resident of the area, the […]

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Monumentous World: The Obscure and Outstanding Monuments in Seattle, Washington

The Statue of Chief Seattle, A Salish Welcome, the Fallen Firefighter Memorial and more

Monuments of all sizes and types have come to dominate the landscape and skyline of Seattle, Washington. The Space Needle has become an icon for the entire region, while the Fremont Troll showcases what it can mean to imagine how an empty space can create an identity for an entire neighborhood. Monuments have transformed entire […]

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