Who Is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? Jordan Rich of WBZ Radio 1030 That's Who.

A few years ago I was invited on the Jordan Rich Show. Jordan kindly wanted to further the exposure of my Boston Monument Guide book to the public over the air ways.

Joe Gallo Author and Mayor White by Antonio Eduardo 

Dear Joe,

Great Globe article! I was so happy to read it. I am thrilled for your success with the project.
Have a great summer.

Jordan Rich WBZ

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak to Us" can be purchased on Amazon.com and local Boston, MA Bookstores.

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Who is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? Karen Jordan of New Hampshire is!

Who is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? Karen Jordan of New Hampshire That's Who!

Karen Jordan of N.H. is using Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us.

One of the latest Boston Monuments to be constructed is the Armenian Memorial Monument and Garden on The Rose Kennedy Park Way.

Although this most recently built Boston monument is not entered ( because of its later construction) within my book dozens of historical monuments surround it that are documented within "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak to Us".

This Boston Monument guide book can be purchased at local book stores within Boston and on Amazon.com

Just some Boston Monuments surrounding this latest memorial are listed below:

Bill Rogers Boston Monument Faneuil Hall

Bobby Orr Boston Monument Boston, MA

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"

Boston Bronze and Stone easy to use map guide to Faneuil Hall Area

Jame Michael Curly Boston Monument

Asarton by Mags Harries crosswalk Bicentennial Boston Monument

Who Is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? Nancy Schon Sculptress That's Who.

"Such a beautiful, well crafted book. It's marvelous. Thank you so much. I am honored to be in it."

Nancy Schon, Creator of the 'Make Way for Ducklings' bronze described on page 72

A page From "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"

Nancy Shon "Make Way For Ducklings"Boston, MA

Make Way for Ducklings ( 1987 )

Boston Public Gardens Nancy Schön, Sculptor Bronze / Stone

This Sculpture has been placed here as a tribute to Robert McCloskey whose story “Make Way for Ducklings” has made the Boston Public Garden familiar to children through out the world. (1987)
Taken from the Bronze

Make Way for Ducklings, a children’s book written by Robert McCloskey in 1941, won the Caldecott Medal (an award given annually for outstanding juvenile literature) in 1942. It quickly became a classic, going through seventeen printings and selling more than 700,000 copies.

 With his own drawings, McCloskey relates the tale of a pair of mallard ducks looking for a nesting site in Boston. They find the perfect place on an island in the Charles River Basin, but they remember the peanuts fed them by visitors to the Public Garden. When the ducklings are old enough, Mrs. Mallard and her progeny take a stroll up sidewalks and through traffic. One of Boston’s newer traditions is a children’s parade retracing the ducklings’ route on Duckling Day (Mothers Day).

Requests for replicas in other cities have been turned down by the sculptor because ‘it’s a Boston story.’ She made exception when Russian First Lady Raisa Gorbachev asked her American counterpart Barbara Bush for a duplicate for Moscow; in 1991 a duck family was installed in Gorky Park.

Dedicated in the 150th anniversary year of the Public Garden, the sculpture is considered a tribute to McCloskey, whose drawings the sculptor followed closely. Given to the City of Boston by Friends of the Public Garden.

Nancy Schön (born 1928) is a renowned sculptor of public art displayed internationally. Nancy prides herself in having work that is totally interactive. Her sculptures are available for people to touch, sit on, hug and interact with every day of the year, day or night.

Another major work by Nancy Schön’s besides Make Way for Ducklings is The Tortoise and Hare, which is a metaphor for the Boston Marathon and is located at the finish line in Copley Square.

As Nancy creates a work of art, her research is a quest for knowledge and of understanding issues and of learning, including her philosophy of “reflection in action”. “We learn so much from our inquiry but as my husband said, ‘we know more than we can say’ and I would always say back to him that I think our unconscious is brilliant!” 

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased on Amazon.com

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Who is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? Jaqueline Ganim- DeFalco Is That's Who.

Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco from Gloucester, MA observes, 

"Public Art is a great gift to a city and Joe Gallo's book is a great gift to Boston... Joe's comprehensive look at the diverse and important installations in Boston deserves its own place in our modern history and should be a model for such work in other cities." 

 Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, Chair, seARTS (Society for the Encouragement of the Arts)

Horace Mann Mass State House Grounds Boston,MA

General George Patton Esplanade  Boston, MA

Mayor Maurice J Tobin Boston, MA

Arthur Fiedler Esplanade Boston, MA

Esplanade
Ralph Helmick (1952 -), Sculptor Aluminum / Granite h. 6’ 4”
During my senior year in high school, I first saw Arthur Fiedler, energetically conducting The Boston Symphony Orches- tra. Sitting in the first level balcony I watched his demanding intensity leading his musicians. The sculptor, Helmick depicts Fiedler’s forceful musical passion in granite and layers of alumi- num, an exception to our theme of bronze and stone but Fiedler was an exception in symphonic conductors.
Famed and beloved conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra for fifty years, 1929-1979, Arthur Fiedler founded the free Esplanade concerts still performed in Boston’s summer evenings at the nearby Hatch Shell.

Cambridge sculptor Ralph Helmick earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the Boston Museum School in 1980. This monumental head is built up of cut out layers of aluminum in varying thicknesses, a distinctive tech- nique originated by Helmick. 

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased on Amazon.com and at local book shops within the Boston area.

Who Is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? Denton Crews Thats Who. Boston, MA

Denton Crews is using my book "Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us"to seek out Boston's many dozens of historical monuments. Denton is a Vestry and a member of King's Chapel as well as a long time resident of Boston, MA and Professor at Lesley College.

Samuel Vassel monument William Tyler

Samuel Appleton

Samuel Appleton member of King's Chapel

Apthrop Memorial

Frances Barker Shirley Monument

Hand carved King's Chapel Pulpit

Joe and Abigail

Denton,exclaims, "What a concept in book guides easy to read simple navigation of map use beautiful coffee table book for my home. I love the beautiful Boston King's Chapel historical monument collection some of the first monuments in our country."

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased in local book stores in and around Boston, MA and on Amazon.com

Who is Using My Guidebook?; John Driscoll Boston Business Building Developer, Thats Who.

John Driscoll, states,

"'Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us' Is an asset with many returns. I can find my way around  dozens of historical Boston Monuments with these easy to understand maps depicting where numerous monumental art works are localed in and around my buildings along Commonwealth Ave , Newbury Street and Boylston Street in Boston."

Firemens Memorial

General John Glover

Patrick A Collins

Samuel Elliot Morison

William Lloyd Harrison

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us " can be purchased at the Fanuel Hall Gift Shop and The Old North Church Gift Shop Boston, MA. Also, sold On Amazon.com as well.

Who is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? Myrna Woodworth From Peabody, MA Is Using It!

6/23/2016

Who is Using My Boston Monument Guide Book? Myrna Woolworth from Peabody, MA is Using It!

Hi Mr. Gallo:

I received my copy of your book today and spent some of my afternoon going through it.  It is really wonderful!  I am surprised it is not for sale at the Tourist Bureau or in Quincy Market.  It really should be.  If I were coming to Boston as a tourist, this would be wonderful to have.

This fall when the weather is cooler, my husband and I will be going into town again to spend the day and will use this book as our guide.

Many thanks for writing such a wonderful historic guide book.

Sincerely,

Myrna Woodworth

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased i local Boston Book Stores and on Amazon.com