new bronze statues in Ohio

Andy Sacksteder. Captain and the Kid. 2012. Port Clinton O. 

This group can be seen at three spots around the Great Lakes. Here yards away from Lake Erie, in Gladstone Michigan by Lake Michigan, and Hessel Michigan by Lake Huron. Sacksteder is from Port Clinton, and lives in Gladstone Michigan. He went to Ohio State, and has a Woody Hayes statue near that campus.

Norman Rockwell. Outward Bound. 1927.

Andy Sacksteder. Lighthouse Keeper and His Dog. 2020. Port Clinton O.

statue group by the Port Clinton lighthouse

Paul Brown. 2023. Norwalk O.

Also part of Brown's memorial, all the teams he successfully coached. 

The statue has him walking on a silhouette of the Ohio map. Paul Brown has statues in Massillon [click], and Oxford (Miami). In Massillon there is also one of the high school's mascot [click]. Conspicuously absent are ones not in C-bus, and Cleveland. Cleveland has statues of Otto Graham, Jim Brown, and a previous owner of the NFL team. There are two statues of Hayes in Columbus one by Alan Cottrill, and one in Newcomerstown also by Alan Cottrill.

Woodrow Nash. Sojourner Truth. 2024. Akron.

Sojourner Truth's first language was Dutch, and her name was Isabella Baumfree *c.1797, 1883†. She was sold three times as a child. She endured cruelty. In 1826, before New York's emancipation 1827, she escaped with her fifth child, an infant girl. In 1828 she sued to have a twice sold son returned to her.

 

On Pentecost 1843 she named herself Sojourner Truth, and she believed God wanted her to go forth and speak truth. Her most famous speech was at an Universalist church in Akron on 29 May 1851 during the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Later it was called the "Ain't I a Woman? Speech". One version was written in 1863, as if she spoke in a southern dialect; she did not. For the anniversary of that speech, and the 100th of national womens' suffrage, a ceremony to present Truth's statue took place Wednesday evening past. It is in a new plaza with more memorials to her. The plaza was one of the parking lots of United Way, it was on the site of the aforementioned church.

 

the speech not in dialect

Well, in September there maybe a Roberto Clemente statue in Cleveland, and the Lone Sailor statue may be moved from the Great Lakes Science Museum to the 9th Street Pier.