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and the slave port at Annapolis, where Haley’s character Kinte is sold. Bronze statuary depicts Haley reading to three children, and a plaque summarizes Kinte’s trip aboard the slave shipNovelist Morrison’s observation in a 1989 interview that there was no memorial for the contemplation of slavery’s legacy, not even a “small bench by the road,” gave rise to a society dedicated to establishing such benches.
Dedicated in 2013, this seven-foot bronze at Fifth and F, Northwest, depicts a fireman and a dog sharing a meaningful gaze, in memory of canines that sniff out arson after building fires. It was inspired by Colorado dog handler“I thought there’s got to be a way to honor these dogs and validate them.”Outside the University of Maryland’s Stamp Student Union, a bronze Kermit the Frog sits conversing with his human inventor,on a red granite bench.
Towering over Old Town Alexandria, this 333-foot structure on Shuters Hill doesn’t get the same tourist traffic as the obelisk on the Mall. But when it was dedicated in 1932 to honor Master Mason George Washington, more than 20,000 Freemasons and7. Sonny Bono Memorial Parkafter the congressman and former pop star’s death in 1998, this 800-square-foot remembrance near Dupont Circle is now looked after by its neighbor, the Heurich House Museum.
The real Roscoe was actually a victim of a hit-and-run while crossing the road. Photograph by Patrick J. Kiger.The real Roscoe roamed Takoma Park’s streets despite a $100 bounty on his head until 1999, when he was a victim of a hit-and-run while crossing the road. Residents often dress his life-size statue in Old Town Takoma with a hat and scarf on winter days.Titanic,
but that’s just a coincidence. Funded by $1 donations from women across the US, it was dedicated in 1931 to honor the men who “gave their lives that women and children might be saved.” It was moved to Washington Channel Park in 1966 to make way for the Kennedy Center. Every April 15 at midnight, the Men’s Titanic Society convenes here, dressed in the formal attire many passengers wore that fateful night.
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