tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post8981515591275009796..comments2023-10-31T06:25:46.016-04:00Comments on SLANTblog: A statue of Wilder should go where?F.T. Reahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02042465274190082050noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-51225501356592373502008-09-11T08:34:00.000-04:002008-09-11T08:34:00.000-04:00Statues on Capitol Square are reserved for outstan...Statues on Capitol Square are reserved for outstanding citizens in Virginia HISTORY. These are memorial statues in that they are to be erected once the honoree has passed away. Perhaps those calling for a statue of Mayor Wilder are hoping for an early departure?? No statue has been or will be installed on Capitol Square for a living person - who is still molding his/her record.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-90045135756578852072008-09-02T10:59:00.000-04:002008-09-02T10:59:00.000-04:00Terry, Scott: In fact, most people who get statue...Terry, Scott:<BR/><BR/> In fact, most people who get statues built to them wouldn't have approved of them--beginning with General Lee and ending with Arthur Ashe. But we put them up for ourselves as statements of memory.<BR/><BR/>I think it is inevitable that a Wilder monument of some kind will go up; given the passage of time and the immediate and current controversies are just old news, what will be remembered is not actually living with his administration, but the recognition of his achievements. <BR/><BR/>And of all people, he should've been at the Civil Rights memorial dedication. But people will forget, and forgive, that, too. They always seem to have done so, regarding Wilder.HEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875404162768628296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640358.post-60925628033763232612008-08-28T16:51:00.000-04:002008-08-28T16:51:00.000-04:00I remember there being some discussion in the past...I remember there being some discussion in the past of a Wilder statue on Belvidere/Chamberlyne corridor that would begin an effort to make a new string of statues to rival Monument Avenue. In Oregon Hill, there has been consideration of a monumnent to Grace Arents, but of course she would dislike that notion.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08185330355847710755noreply@blogger.com