Jean Jaurez - Block Island Historical Society Grounds - New Shoreham, RI - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

In New Shoreham, by the Block Island Historical Society Museum, is a stone bench with and inscription in it attributed to Jean Jaurez.

The bench is located on the property of the museum, on one side of the walkway to the front entrance. The museum is at the corner of Ocean Avenue, Old Town Road, Dodge Street, and Corn Neck Road.

The bench is a granite bench, roughly cut on the sides and top. On the top is the inscription:

"Take from the altar of the past the fire not the ashes
Jean Jaurez"

According to a web site, Jean Jaurez was a social party leader in France. He was born in 1859 and as assassinated in 1914.

Source:

izQuotes:
(visit link)

Block Island Historical Society
(visit link)

Address: 18 Old Town Road New Shoreham, RI 02807 Website: [Web Link]

Visit Instructions:
Please include the following with your submission of a visit:

1. Photograph as a proof of your visit.
2. Short narrative. Tell of your visit, share something new, edit the waymark with additional quotes found a the location, add new visiting hours or anything that would be nice to know when visiting the location.
3. Finally, please add a visit if you go to the area and you find the building, memorial, memorial or structure has been removed. Please submit an edit to the waymark adding the words {Historic/Removed} at the end. Also, edit the short description to annotate the reason it was removed for the value to other visitors.

Recent Visits/Logs:

There are no logs for this waymark yet.