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Everything Else May Suck, but We Still Have Tower of Power: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Sir John Barron8/21/2018 6:49:17 am PDT

re: #173 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Been getting churched up on the recently toppled Silent Sam statue at UNC.

Sam was made in the heart of Yankee-land, Chestnut Hill Massachusetts, by a Canadian, John Wilson. It cost the United Daughters of the Confederacy $7500 in 1913, equivalent to about $185,000 today. That kind of comparison is notably imprecise, but having been involved with a couple of similar projects, I would guess that would be about the current cost of an equivalent statue.
Wilson also produced a number of statues for Union organizations, notably the extraordinarily powerful Washington Grays Monument (“Pennsylvania Volunteer”) in Philadelphia.

Has Donnie rage-tweeted about this yet?