A Brief History
On July 14, 2013, a statue of Rachel Carson was erected at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, commemorating her environmental activism, including writing the book, Silent Spring in 1962 that served to alert Americans about the dangers of pesticides.
Digging Deeper
Many persons have done service to mankind and deserve a statue. Today, we ask you, who you would dedicate a statue to that does not already have statues in their honor? Here are some people we think are worthy of being immortalized on statues, and in any instance in which a statue already exists depicting any of these men and women, we would be okay with more being made:
Teressa Bellissimo, inventor of Buffalo Wings, as the co-owner of Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
LeBron James, Greatest of All Time Basketball Player.
Loreta Janeta Velázquez, US Civil War soldier that fought for the Confederate Army in disguise as a man. Courage is honored on any side.
Emilie Schindler, the wife of the more famous Oskar Schindler, she also saved numerous Jews and other concentration camp inmates during World War II but did not get the fame for her efforts.
Question for students (and subscribers) to ponder: Who is your pick for a statue?
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Mariner Books Classics, 2022.
Thompson, Erin. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
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