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Lovett Memorial Reading Garden Benches
Warren C. Holzman,
2004
* abstract
benches,
words
* inscription:
read, muse, grow
* In the garden of the Lovett Memorial Library.
East side of Germantown, South of Sedgwick.
* 40.056650,-75.187525 [map] [nearby]
* On the Germantown Avenue tour
* See also:
+ironstudioltd.com
+freelibrary.org's Lovett Memorial Library page
Turkish Catapult Stones
1400 - 1499
* Artifacts taken by Samuel Livingston Breese
* weapons
(rocks)
* The inscription actually says 18-8, but the Congress was Commodore Breese's flagship until 1858
* inscription:
These two stone cannon balls were hurled from catapults by the Turks in their engagements with the Christians in the XVth century. Transported in 1858 from the island of Rhodes by the U.S. Frigate "Congress" under command of Commodore Samuel Livingston Breese, USN
* Gate posts.
Lovett Memorial Library.
East side of Germantown, South of Sedgwick.
* 40.056600,-75.187800 [map] [nearby]
* On the Germantown Avenue tour
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's history of Rhodes
+wikipedia.org's USS Congress page
+wikipedia.org's Samuel Livingston Breese page
+freelibrary.org's Lovett Memorial Library page
Mt. Airy Learning Tree Mosaic
Jessica Gorlin-Liddell,
2006
* tree,
names and words
* inscription:
Everything you need to know you can learn under this tree
* North wall.
Lovett Memorial Library.
Southeast corner, Germantown and Sedgwick.
* 40.056950,-75.187850 [map] [nearby]
* On the Germantown Avenue tour
* Exhibits: Mosaic
* See also:
+artist's picture of this piece
+bellamosaic.com
+freelibrary.org's Lovett Memorial Library page
Together Family
Ken Clark,
1977
* people
standing
* Hanging from the top of the wall.
Northeast of the Northeast corner, Germantown and Sedgwick.
* 40.057460,-75.188050 [map] [nearby]
* On the Germantown Avenue tour
