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LOOKING BACK: Famed Geneva statue has a twin


The Peace statue in Pulteney Park is a beloved, and sometimes decorated, part of Geneva. Did you know she has a twin sister in North Carolina?
In the mid-1930s, the Geneva Central Council of Veterans pursued getting a memorial monument for the city. The Works Progress Administration provided $10,000, probably through the Federal Art Project. A young artist in Buffalo, Jean MacKay, was hired to create the monument at a time when few women were sculptors. She made a classical figure of a woman kneeling with her sword in the ground to symbolize peace.
The model was completed in 1938 and sent to the Georgia Marble Company for carving. MacKay reviewed the statue before completion and rejected it. She felt that dark veins running through the face and body ruined the sculpture. Peace was carved again, at no cost to the city, and was dedicated on Memorial Day 1939. The marble plaque on the sidewalk in front of the statue reads: “Erected to the memory of Geneva patriots who se ....

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