Berlin Wall - Hyde Park, NY - Monuments of the Eastern Freedomfights on Waymarking.com

The sign says: «The figure of the man and woman you were cut from a larger section of the Berlin wall. The section depicted above is located at the Winston Churchill memorial and library in Fulton, Missouri. Bothworks, the one here in Hyde park and the companion piece in Fulton, were created by Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill.»

Dedicated May 14, 1994

"The East German transition government gave Sandys eight wall panels to create a sculpture for the Churchill Memorial."

Using the cutout pieces of the Berlin Wall that Edwina had carefully saved from her Breakthrough sculpture, she created a new sculpture BreakFree for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. The two 12 foot figures of Man and Woman are installed at FDR’s home in the Hudson Valley. The sculpture shows the figures of a man and a woman emerging from symbolic, giant barbed wire, expressing Man’s irresistible quest for freedom. Appropriately, this sculpture stands on a podium inscribed around the base with Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms’.

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Rate this waymark: Adress of the monument: 4097 Albany Post Rd Hyde Park, NY 12538 When was this monument palced?: May 14, 1994 Who placed this monument?: Edwina Sandys

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