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The Man at The Wheel Statue Still Likely for US Quarter

"For 83 years, the Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial has towered over the city's main boulevard. Fishermen and their families consider it a holy place, and the bronze statue - which depicts a fisherman holding a boat's wheel out at sea - is a magnet for tourists and locals. Even Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes shed tears when he saw the memorial, and its inscription inspired by the 107th Psalm, "They that go down to the sea in ships": here is the rest from the latest Boston Globe Article

Posted by Kristal Pooler - North Shore & Cape Ann on 04/16/2009 03:14 AM

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