I actually like the idea for a park like that, at least as far as what I’m envisioning anyway. The college I went to had bronze “slice of life” statues in the public spaces that I liked. For example, a woman sitting on a bench with her daughter reading a book. Another one had a man playing with a dog. There were others but it’s been a long time since I saw them but they all kind of captured moments of nostalgia that always made me feel a little calmer and happier as I passed them.
What I’m picturing with this park is something similar - a beautiful garden intended to stroll around filled with life sized (not monuments) statues of notable American citizens who have accomplished something significant in their vocations.
His list is actually not half bad even if I’d argue about a few names on there. But overall it seems to get a slice of American life from famous figures, politicians, liberators, artists, athletes, writers, entertainers, businesspeople, and scholars. I really do think spending some time walking around, looking at those statues and reading about their lives (most likely this would be a fully multimedia experience nowadays) would be effective at telling an American story from the eyes of notable citizens.
Giuliani won’t represent Trump in the impeachment trial, because he’ll be serving as a witness. And in a clear sign of his ongoing descent into mental incapacity, he issued the following statement:
I’m still stumbling on Facebook and Twitter posts from true believers who think that there is some grand plan that will see Trump sworn in for his second term on Wednesday.
After taking the oath, “Biden” will rip off the latex mask revealing it’s actually Trump encased in a highly constricting body suit while the band plays the Mission Impossible theme.
Cow Parade is actually incorporated in West Hartford, Ct, about a mile from where I live. We’ve had a couple of events here in town, and still have some artistic cows around. They give cow models to local artists who decorate them. Get some interesting results.
Speaking of which, I hear he is going to hop on Angel One and fly to West Palm Beach at 11am on Wednesday – I wonder if the flight crew can gin up some technical problem that will take them an hour to fix.
Or they have a minor glitch that forces/allows them to land in McBee, South Carolina. “Okay, that ‘Check Engine’ light is off now, but gee, it’s after noon now, so… we’re heading back to DC. Goodbye, Mr. Trump.”
There were a series of street pianos in Boston one year, each with a different artist’s treatment. I forget where, but another city lured 40 or so artists to take a fiberglass-cast horse, paint or otherwise finish it however they pleased, and then put the ponies all over town.
Santa Rosa, CA and surrounding burbs have molded fiberglas statues of Peanuts characters (mostly Charlie Brown and Snoopy) around town, painted up in various carnival colors.
(Charles Schulz, cartoonist of Peanuts, lived in nearby Sebastopol for substantially his whole life.)
DC already did it in 2002 with an exhibit called Party Animals. There were 100 donkeys and 100 elephants all around the city that were auctioned for charity. Meanwhile, the Green Party complained that they were not represented.
