We are definitely on the homeward stretch now, working our way through Vermont towards New York State.
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| Whale Dance or Whale Tails 2 (2019, by Jim Sardonis, a friend of Aunt Lynn and Uncle Kit) in Randolph, VT |
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| Green Mountain Boy statue (1915), in Rutland, VT, commemorates the Green Mountain Boys, a military organization (est 1770) led by Ethan Allen, to protect the British territory between New York and New Hampshire, and then served in the American Revolutionary War; today it is the informal name of the Vermont National Guard |
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| Nicknamed the Frozen GI, this sculpture (started 1981 by John Reno, completed 1995 by John Bergeron) is the Rutland County Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
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| The Leash (1983 by Patrick Farrow, brother of Mia Farrow) shows a dog straining against an invisible leash attached to a missing parking meter |
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| Relief sculpture (2018, designed by Kellie Pereira, carved by Stephen Shaheen, Alessandro Lombardo, and Andrea Ingrassia) of Andrea Mead Lawrence, a Rutland native, who won two gold medals in alpine skiing at the 1952 Olympics, the first to do so |
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| The face side of the sculpture (2019, by Stephen Shaheen) of Bill Watson, a Rutland native who founded Alcoholics Anonymous |
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| The hand side of the Bill Watson sculpture |
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| We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest Until it Comes mural (2020, by LMNOPI) |
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| Stone Legacy (2017, designed by Kellie Pereira, carved by Stephen Shaheen using carver Alessandro Lombardo as the model) is a tribute to the immigrants and residents of Rutland County who worked in the stone industry |
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| Martin Henry Freeman (2021, designed by Mark Burnett, carved by Don Ramey), a Rutland native who was the first African-American professor and president of an American college, the Allegheny Institute near Pittsburgh, PA |
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