"Even by 19th-century standards, James Harlan was a prude. As Secretary of the Interior, he searched the desks of his clerks at night, looking for signs of inappropriate behavior. One night he found a book of poetry. Harlan flipped through it, shocked by the poems and by what the clerk had written in the margins. Harlan fired the clerk the next day, declaring such “filth” had no place in government.
The clerk was Walt Whitman. The book was Leaves of Grass, which Whitman was revising. Whitman got another job, Harlan became a footnote in literary history."
I’m ok with this one staying
It should be noted this is not a Confederate monument, but a Union one.
Fuck yeah! Another victory!
And this statue offers that union to come suckle at the proverbial teats of those mighty rivers.
Poetry
Til this exists
Til a woman designed it
Not really... https://littlevillagemag.com/your-village-why-theres-a-statue-of-a-nude-woman-facing-the-iowa-state-capitol/
A woman designed the monument and the original design but the was embellished by a different sculptor after she had died
"Even by 19th-century standards, James Harlan was a prude. As Secretary of the Interior, he searched the desks of his clerks at night, looking for signs of inappropriate behavior. One night he found a book of poetry. Harlan flipped through it, shocked by the poems and by what the clerk had written in the margins. Harlan fired the clerk the next day, declaring such “filth” had no place in government.
The clerk was Walt Whitman. The book was Leaves of Grass, which Whitman was revising. Whitman got another job, Harlan became a footnote in literary history."
Fantastic read.
Rofl straight out of Parks and Rec
Hell yeah
I hear Iowa's got huge tracts of land!
Missed fountain opportunity.
She slays tho
They have good taste
Thus proving gooners existed back then too
I've long held we replace every statue everywhere with Fred Durst statues. No explanation given.
Goddamnit Donnie, we can't afford to hire another sculptor!
Haha. Tits.