News from the Lincoln Highway.
From the August 18, 2020, TribLive "Plan to replace Abraham Lincoln statue in Wilkinsburg moving along" by Paul Guggenheimer.
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.
They are hoping to have the statue back on its perch in time for the anniversary of his birthday next year (Feb. 12 in case you're wondering). For the past eighteen months, a group of Wilkinsburg residents have been working to raise $70,000 for a new life-size statue of our 16th president.
The statue stood (at one time) at the intersection of Penn Avenue and Ardmore Boulevard for decades. A GoFundMe page was created in April 2019 and an anonymous donor has offered to match donations on it.
The statue currently is in a foundry ready to be sculpted. A clay model exists and is described as stunning.
It will replace the old statue that stood there for so long, but was the victim of many mishaps, the latest in April 2018 when a car lost control and plowed through part of the fencing around it.
--RoadDog
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