https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:05:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1462 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:33:26 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1462 On May 15, 1877, fifty thousand people marched to Central Park's Mall to dedicate J. Wilson MacDonald's statue of a great poet. The National Guard escorted the dignitaries: the Cabinet, the Army's general-in-chief, the governor, the mayor. Brass bands thumped away until 3:00 PM. Then the venerable William Cullen Bryant]]>