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 Wilcox Park Centennial - Westerly, Rhode Island Posted by:  401Photos
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In a full on sprint, the lifelike statue of a rabbit by Joan Binney Ross marks the Wilcox Park centennial in Westerly, RI. This larger-than-life rendition based on Margaret Wise Brown's picture book, "The Runaway Bunny" (1942), is cast in bronze.
Waymark Code: WM10VRN
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 06/28/2019
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Wilcox Park and Westerly Public Library have been intrinsically linked from the beginning. From their website:
"The people shall have a park." So saying, in 1898 Harriet Wilcox purchased and donated to the Memorial and Library association the seven acre Rowse Babcock estate in the heart of Westerly's business district. Established as a memorial to her husband Stephen Wilcox, the moving force behind the building of the library, the park was expanded through several smaller additions until 1905. At this time, the purchase of the adjacent nine acre Brown estate essentially fixed the park's boundaries as we know them today.
Wilcox Park features a beautiful landscape defined by an open meadow area with surrounding trees, a fish pond, monuments and perennial gardens.
A larger-than-life rendition of a bunny cast in bronze resides in the park a couple hundred yards northwest of the library. It is based on Margaret Wise Brown's picture book, "The Runaway Bunny" (1942). In a full on sprint, the lifelike statue by Joan Binney Ross measures about ten feet long and three feet high.
A plaque mounted to a boulder beside the statue reads:
THE RUNAWAY BUNNY
BY JOAN BINNY ROSS
INSPIRED BY THE WORKS OF
MARGARET WISE BROWN
WILCOX PARK CENTENNIAL
SEPTEMBER 1998
Subject: Town
Commemoration: Centennial of Wilcox Park
Date of Founding: 1898
Date of Commemoration: September 1998
Address:
Wilcox Park
44 Broad Street
Westerly, Rhode Island
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Web site if available: [Web Link]
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