We've already warned you: beware of white ladies and anniversaries. We're here to tell you that this applies to marble statues, too. Learn all about the Portrait Monument in this minisode—a piece commissioned by Alice Paul to commemorate Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony...and some nebulous pile of unfinished rock looming behind them, whose meaning is up for debate (according to us). What do you think we should do with these statues? How do they influence our memory of history? Thanks to historian Lisa Tretault, author of The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Woman's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, for her writing about this problematic hunk of rock.
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