Monday, December 13, 2021 – The celebration for THE GIRL PUZZLE
MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2021
The 544th Edition
THE GIRL PUZZLE
CELEBRATION
CONTINUES
CBS SATURDAY MORNING FEATURED THE SCULPTURE ON THEIR SHOW THIS MORNING.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nellie-bly-monument-opens/
We have been celebrating the people and artists Amanda and Brad Matthews from Lexington, Kentucky. We are shocked to hear of the devastation and death on the State. Our prayers are for all the wonderful people of Kentucky at this terrible time.
This morning Amanda texted me “We got home in the dark last night. Our farm and animals all seem to be fine, but have family members list homes and businesses and who have friends who died in the storms.”
Hurray for The Girl Puzzle and the people who have brought it to Roosevelt island. Piece by piece, RI is becoming an urban outdoor analogue to the installations that appear in the Storm King Art Center along the Hudson upstate, but for the most part, the statuary here helps us know our history. A continuing tribute to the leader of the RIHS.
And the photo looks like automobiles exiting into Manhattan from the 59th St Bridge… But let’s keep using RI as the venue for art teaching us about our history.
The old bollards to which vessels tied up in the West Channel near the Otterness statues extolling real estate. The prow of a vessel jutting out from the Island into the West Channel. The Becker restoration and renovation of the Octagon.
The buildings along Main Street and the new construction at Cornell Tech. The preserved ruins telling more of our history Then the elegance of FDR Memorial. What a wonderful place our Island is! Thanks to the people with the vision and talent to create it!!
Sent recently from an iPhone transmitting near my home planet
Jay Jacobson
Judith, it was my pleasure entirely. All the fiends who joined me thought it was a very special afternoon celebrating an extraordinary woman, the artist, you, and all the civic work it took to make the installation happen. I’m now on the Advisory Board of another nonprofit in Lexington, MA working to put up the first monument to women in town. They selected Meredith Bergmann as sculptor.
The thing about Amanda’s work is that she makes the women and the work come alive. That’s no easy task.
Let’s stay in touch. Here are some beautiful photos. – Namita Luthra
#MONUMENTAL WOMEN
MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
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WEEKEND PHOTO OF THE DAY
Manhattan end of Queensboro Bridge, lower deck, approaching Second Avenue. Small structures to left of the bridge traffic are stairs to and from the underground trolley terminal for cars crossing the bridge that stopped at the then-Welfare Island, where elevators brought passengers to the surface level. Bonus history factoid: photo is after June 4, 1951, when First and Second Avenues were converted to one-way traffic. Andy Sparberg
Hara Reiser, Gloria Herman, Aron Eisenpreiss, Alexis Villafane also got it right!
SOURCES
EPHEMERAL NEW YORK
[Top Image: Danny Lyon/US National Archives and Records Administration via Wikipedia; Second image: Wikipedia; third image: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.; fifth image: New-York Historical Society; sixth image: MCNY 1971 by George Roos x2010.11.763]
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