Statue Trivia

[Eva Elisabeth]

(05-23-2017 06:57 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  

(05-23-2017 07:29 AM)Gene C Wrote:  While on a recent trip to Oregon, I had to visit Lincoln City, a small resort town on the Pacific coast, where I found this statue.

Angela, found the same statue in Salzburg, Austria and posted about it here - http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...l#pid32675
The same statue is also in New Salem.

Ms. Anna Hyatt Hunnington was famous for her equestrian statues. Which might explain why Lincoln is not looking as well as his horse. (Maybe it was just a boring section in the book he was reading). It was first offered to the University of Oregon, but they didn't want to pay the moving cost of $60,000. The town of Lincoln City somehow managed to raise the money so they got the statue.

And of course this the statue in New Salem. In Michigan the statue is in Midland and in Adrian.

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(05-23-2017 05:10 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Hint #1: The man Lincoln is facing is sitting.

Hint #1.5: He is a person who has been mentioned before on this forum.

Hint #1.75: The photo was taken on a college campus.

That is the Lincoln statue at Carthage College in Wisconsin. The seated gentleman is none other than John Hay.
Sidenote: I have been to the grave of John Hay. He is buried in Cleveland in the same cemetery as President Garfield. As important as a man as John Hay was in his life- there is nothing at his grave to denote it. If you didn't know who he was - you would never know he had been anyone special.

Gene -proportions remind a bit of Lucky Luke (strangely not in Angela's photos).
   
Bill - maybe John Hay explicitly didn't want any hint on his grave?