Word: ziolkowski
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Revolutionary uniforms, rattling loud tattoos. Traffic Cop Arnold Belanger dressed up like George Washington. The Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, dean of Hartford Theological Seminary, read a prologue. But, in spite of this whoop-dee-do, West Hartfordians' emotions were mixed. They had been mixed ever since Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski had first suggested adorning West Hartford with his statue of Noah Webster...
When Boston-born Sculptor Ziolkowski moved to West Hartford five years ago he was shocked to find no statue of the town's famous son, said he would create one if West Hartford would raise $16,519 to pay expenses. When public-spirited West Hartfordians kicked in a mere $3,700, Sculptor Ziolkowski was hurt, but agreed to carry on. Saying that the money would not provide him a shed to work in, Ziolkowski borrowed a trailer and carted a 32-ton block of Tennessee marble onto the lawn in front of West Hartford's prim Town Hall...
Climax of Sculptor Ziolkowski's monumental campaign came last month when he chiseled an inscription at the base of his statue. It read...
...Sculptor Ziolkowski said the lines came from a letter Webster once wrote to John Jay, but to jittery West Hartfordians this looked like a personal insult. Sniffed the Hartford Courant: "If Mr. Ziolkowski chooses to use his statue of Noah Webster as a billboard on which to publish his feelings toward his fellow townsmen, that, of course, is his business." Wailed the West Hartford Metropolitan Shopping News: "Perhaps he has forgotten, as many men do today, the teaching of the Good Book which advocates in one place the turning of the other cheek...