Appleton's WWI doughboy statue getting restored
The Doughboy statue was previously rededicated in 2006 as t ceremony on Memorial Drive in Appleton
Madeleine Behr, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published July 18, 2017 |
APPLETON - Residents will see a new face on Memorial Drive by the time Veterans Day is celebrated in November.
Last week, the "Spirit of the American Doughboy" statue was removed and taken to a foundry in Kalona, Iowa, as part of a city program to rehabilitate its war memorials.
A new bronze statue will take its place on Veterans Day this year, said Alex Schultz, the leader of Sculpture Valley, a nonprofit arts advocacy group which assisted the city in creating the memorial restoration program in 2014.
The original doughboy statue will be cleaned up and placed in the History Museum at the Castle for a new exhibit, Schultz said.
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The original statue had previously gone through two recent restorations, one in 2006 and another in 2014. But "none of the previous restorations are what they should have been," Schultz said.
Madeleine Behr: 920-996-7226, or mbehr@postcrescent.com; on Twitter @madeleinebehr