I’m ok with this one staying
71It should be noted this is not a Confederate monument, but a Union one.
83Fuck yeah! Another victory!
55
Iowa, her affections, like the rivers of her borders, flow to an inseparable union.
And this statue offers that union to come suckle at the proverbial teats of those mighty rivers.
56Poetry
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Til this exists
Til a woman designed it
34Not really... https://littlevillagemag.com/your-village-why-theres-a-statue-of-a-nude-woman-facing-the-iowa-state-capitol/
A woman designed the monument and the original design but the was embellished by a different sculptor after she had died
24"Even by 19th-century standards, James Harlan was a prude. As Secretary of the Interior, he searched the desks of his clerks at night, looking for signs of inappropriate behavior. One night he found a book of poetry. Harlan flipped through it, shocked by the poems and by what the clerk had written in the margins. Harlan fired the clerk the next day, declaring such “filth” had no place in government.
The clerk was Walt Whitman. The book was Leaves of Grass, which Whitman was revising. Whitman got another job, Harlan became a footnote in literary history."
Fantastic read.
30Rofl straight out of Parks and Rec
2was embellished
Hell yeah
2
I hear Iowa's got huge tracts of land!
21Missed fountain opportunity.
18She slays tho
14They have good taste
7They have good taste
Tastes like brass.
3
Thus proving gooners existed back then too
6I've long held we replace every statue everywhere with Fred Durst statues. No explanation given.
4Goddamnit Donnie, we can't afford to hire another sculptor!
3Haha. Tits.
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