Walked south on the Hudson River Greenway. The Charlottesville greenbelt is a very different walk. In Charlottesville the intersection of river and the land retains natural function plus native flora and fauna. There is communication going on between river and land. Loved walking the Hudson but the Rivanna has more to say.
Lots of white guys on horses riding around the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. I didn’t notice any memorialization of slavery. In 1905, New York City unveiled the bronze statue of General Slocum with President Theodore Roosevelt as the keynote speaker. Slocum’s horse displays the raised front leg, a symbol of victory. The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic … By Richard J. Berenson
The donkey and the elephant go head to head. Early Disney style. Wise and hearty, wordless, desexed, true…(14th Street station sculpture by Tom Otterness
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman laid the cornerstone of the triumphal arch at Grand Army Plaza in 1889. According to one account, art critics did not approve of the final result. President Abraham (NMI) Lincoln sits his horse.
This monument makes Matilda uncomfortable, she had relatives who drowned. She’d like to see it taken down.(Bailey Fountain, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)
