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Statues of Fictional Figures Across the World Spur Debate
A long look at public monuments honors fictional characters from Huck Finn in Hannibal to Rip Van Winkle in Cooperstown. The piece traces statues of Evangeline, the White Rabbit, Peter Pan, and others, noting Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in Madrid and local memorials such as Amesbury’s Captain’s Well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Gannett
New York Herald Tribune
Sherlock Holmes
London
Sherlock
Hannibal
Huck Finn
Carolyn Marx
New York World-Telegram
Mir. Gannett
Frampton
Peter Pan
Kensington Gardens
Lewis Carroll
White Rabbit
Wales
Mr. Gannett
Department of Romance Languages
Columbia
D’artagnan
Auch
France
Telegram
Christopher Morley
Nell
Philadelphia
Walter Scott
Rob Roy
Chris
Tom Sawyer
Herald Tribune
Hans Christian Anderson
Little Mermaid
Royal Yacht Club
Copenhagen
Paul and
Virginia
Jardin Des Plantes
Paris
Longfellow
Evangeline
Grand Pre
Nova Scotia
Mistral
Mireille
Les Saintes Maries
Provence
Puss In
Tuileries
Bret Harte
San Francisco
Velleda
Chateaubriand
Sancho Panza
Cervantes
Don Quixote
America
New York
Daniel Chester French
Washington Irving
Irving
Rip van Winkle
George A. Mahan
Cardiff Hill
Tom
Huck
Greec
Rome
Rodin
William Henry Rinehart
Rebecca
Fountain Inn
S. C
Eve
Robert Quillen
Fountain Inn Tribune
John Greenleaf Whittier
New England
East
Arabian