Well, I still haven't heard an answer to my Park Trivia question on Friday, but it's Saturday evening and maybe it's time for a little monument trivia. I usually hang onto these photos for a while, but I thought I'd use one I took today after lunch. This is sort of difficult, because the picture isn't the best -- it was overcast today. I think if I had a better picture this one would be pretty easy.
Who and where? And by the way, when -- as in when was it put up.
I believe that's the Washington Monument in Baltimore. (Not to be confused with its more famous DC counterpart, though both were designed by Robert Mills.)
Herman Melville once wrote of it "[Washington] stands high aloft on his towering main-mast in Baltimore, and like one of Hercules' pillars, his column marks that point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals will go."
Posted by: Owen | July 21, 2012 at 09:05 PM
You got it, Owen. It's the Washington Monument in Baltimore.
Posted by: Alfred Brophy | July 21, 2012 at 10:59 PM