Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us: Thank you from "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"

Monday, November 25, 2013

Thank you from "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"

With much gratitude I would like to thank everyone who has supported me with my book, "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us". This past autumn semester has been extremely hectic with my book promotion and public speaking engagements. The Boston Public Libraries and surrounding suburban libraries have been supportive of the historical and artistic significance of our Boston Monuments. The Women's Clubs, Rotary Clubs, Public Schools, The State House Staff, The Beacon Hill Seminars, The Brookline Adult Education Program and the University of Massachusetts Campus at Columbia Point Boston have all been supportive. I am grateful, honored and humbled that so many have expressed to me not only how beautiful my book is but also how useful it has been for them when further understanding the significance of our Boston Monuments.

Each one of the people associated with these institutional groups has felt the artist's ideas, feelings as well as emotions embedded within each of our Boston's sculptures.

More monuments have and are still being created by our American sculptors for our newly recognized leaders and most recent historical events.

Our monuments speak to us in many ways. The diversity and expanse of age of the people in my audiences impressed me at the conclusion of each talk.

I wish all of you a happy holiday season.

All the best,

Joe Gallo

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About The Author

Joseph R. Gallo Jr. is not a historian nor a sculptor. He is a student and great appreciator of both academic fields. Trained as an educator and being an entrepreneur, he felt a need to reach out to the thousands of visitors who come to our historical city teaching them through this guidebook the purpose and reason why such beautiful works of art embellish our fair City of Boston. Compiling updated photos and historical text for the resurrection of a much needed simple-to-use guidebook Boston Bronze and Stone Speaks To Us was time consuming, but fulfilling. The purpose and meaning of these monuments is made more lucid with the structuring of this new book.

About the Book

Boston Bronze & Stone Speak To Us is a unique and beautiful book that combines art, history, and walking guides for the public sculpture found in eighteen Boston locales. Written by Joseph R. Gallo, Jr., who states that he is not an historian but a lover of the City of Boston, the book combines his original photographs and observations with well-referenced sources and maps for a complete experience of enjoying Boston sculpture. With hundreds of full-color photographs in all, each chapter offers a map of that area with stars and page numbers marking each work discussed. The chapters include the Boston Common, the State House inside and out, Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square, the Boston Public Gardens, the Esplanade and Hatch Shell, the Fenway, Chinatown and the Theater District, Copley Square, Park Square, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, School Street and the Old City hall, King's Chapel, Downtown and the Financial District, Government Center, Quincy Marketplace and Faneuil Hall, the North End, and the Waterfront. The book also includes and Index of Monuments and an Index of the Sculptors. Boston is home to some of the most extraordinary public art in North America. Sculptors of public art include Daniel Chester French, Katherine Lane Weems, August Saint-Gaudens and George Aarons. This lovingly produced book introduces readers to the artists, the subjects of their work, and the accessibility of exceptional art all within the city of Boston.