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Temperance Monument Washington D.C.

The Temperance Monument and Fountain in Washington, D.C. is right next to the Grand Army of the Republic Monument on Pennsylvania Avenue. The monument was…

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Civil War Monument in Pittsfield Mass. Where Ball Playing Was Not Allowed!

Pittsfield, Massachusetts is an old mill town in the Western part of the state, just a half-hour away from Albany. I drove through snow in…

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Freeport Memorial Library on Long Island, N.Y.

Freeport is a lively village on Long Island’s South Shore. It has slips that access the Great South Bay and it is just a bridge…

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Bridgeport Ct. Mountain Grove Cemetery Pro Patria Monument

Bridgeport was a fairly modest city at the time of the Civil War. It was known as a developing mill town and a shipping port…

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Great Falls National Historic Park at Paterson NJ

Typically I take you to monuments constructed to mark historic events or to honor people directly involved in Reconstruction or the Civil War. However, I…

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Union Memorial at Greenfield Cemetery Near Hempstead, N.Y.

Although I have worked in Hempstead for over thirty-five years, I did not know that a cemetery on the border between Uniondale and Hempstead has…

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Yale University Civil War Memorial Hall

In 1895, the Yale Daily News, a student newspaper, began campaigning for Yale to honor its students who fought and died in the Civil War…

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Brewster NY Civil War Monument

Brewster is a small village in New York’s Hudson Valley. I visited its Civil War Monument in January of this year. As has been the…

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Soldiers’ Monument of Waterbury, Conn.

The Waterbury Soldiers’ Monument in Western Connecticut is a monumental sculptural work that demands better care and preservation. Dedicated on October 23, 1884 at the…

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Sojourner Truth Memorial at Northampton, Mass.

In the Summer I went up into the Hudson Valley to see a statue of Sojourner Truth as a young woman. In the Fall I…

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