"company in Louisville, Kentucky that produces and performs the works of William Shakespeare. The main productions offered are the annual summer series of plays presented free to the public at Central Park. This series, commonly called ""Shakespeare in Central Park"", sprung from an initial production in the park by The Carriage House Players in the summer of 1960. They also perform shows in other venues, as well as conduct educational programs related to acting and other theater-related skills. The original Shakespeare in the Park was founded in 1954 by Joseph Papp as the New York Shakespeare Festival, which eventually led"
"along the central corridor of the park. There is a full likeness of Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist, geographer and explorer, and one of William Shakespeare the English playwright, both from 1878 and sculpted by German sculptor Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller. von Miller also produced a statue of the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus that was dedicated in 1886, and placed near the gates and entrance from Grand Avenue. The Christopher Columbus statue is annually commemorated by the local Italian American community. In 2016 and 2017, the statue was vandalized with red paint and messages including ""murderer"" and"
"gift from Carl Jacobsen's Albertine Trust which was created to provide statues and monuments for the parks and squares of Copenhagen, the present statue was originally placed at Langelinie close to the waterfront but was moved to its current park setting when the Kastellet was reconstructed in the 1990s. Benny (Morten Grunwald) and Kjeld (Poul Bundgaard) are seen being chased through the park at 0:48:36 in the 1972 ""Olsen-banden"" film ""The Olsen Gang's Big Score"". Churchillparken Churchillparken (English: Churchill Park) is a public park in Copenhagen, Denmark, occupying a tract of land between Kastellet, a 17th-century fortress, and the street"
"Columbus Park (Chicago) Columbus Park is a park located on the far West Side of Chicago, Illinois in the Austin neighborhood. It is considered the finest work by landscape architect Jens Jensen and was consequently named a National Historic Landmark in 2003. The concept of Columbus Park was first pitched in 1912 by the West Park Commission as a way to develop recreational facilities for densely populated neighborhoods. At the time, the West Side of Chicago had a population of nearly 900,000, but only two small playgrounds. The commission had acquired the property a year earlier from the Catholic church"
"Partridge's statue of William Shakespeare (1894) provides a third great story-teller in Lincoln Park. This seated Shakespeare provides a lap for children to climb onto. A bust of Sir Georg Solti, the former conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was also situated in the Lincoln Park Conservatory's formal garden until its relocation to Grant Park in October, 2006. Statues honoring the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller can also be found in Lincoln Park. The large Goethe statue is located near Diversey Parkway and Stockton Drive. The smaller Schiller statue is located near the western entrance to"
"Grant and Lincoln parks is Alexander Hamilton; the Lincoln Park statue was sculpted by John Angel. Just as there is an in Grant Park, there is a massive memorial to Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln Park overlooking Cannon Drive. The sculpture was created in 1891 by Louis Rebisso. The statue of Hans Christian Andersen by Johannes Gelert (1896) on Stockton Drive near Webster Avenue provides a tribute to the Danish storyteller. The Eugene Field Memorial (1922) designed by Edward McCartan remembers the ""Chicago Daily News"" columnist and poet who wrote ""Little Boy Blue"" and ""Winken, Blinken, and Nod."" William Ordway"
"· Astroland– New York, New York. · Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park– New York, New York. · Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk– Santa Cruz, California. · Lake Compounce– Bristol, Connecticut. · Kennywood– West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. · Rye's Playland- Rye, New York. · Oaks Amusement Park– Portland, Oregon. · Mission Beach Roller Coaster– San Diego, California. · Lake Winnepesaukah– Lakeview, Georgia. · Whalom Park– Lunenburg, Massachusetts. · Holiday World & Splashin' Safari– Santa Claus, Indiana. · Lakeside Amusement Park– Lakeside, Colorado. · Lakemont Park– Altoona, Pennsylvania. · West View Park, Olympia Park, Rainbow Gardens, & Kennywood Park. Great Old Amusement Parks Great"
"in preserving the city's heritage for future generations. Lober created an seated figure of Hans Christian Andersen on a granite bench for New York City's Central Park, that was cast in bronze at Long Island City's Modern Art Foundry. The statue was designed to accompany an outdoor center for story-telling, and was placed on a 40-foot square stone platform surrounded by benches, trees and shrubs. The $75,000 cost of the monument was covered in part by contributions from Danish and American schoolchildren. Lober returned to the theme with his 1955 medal commemorating the 150th anniversary of Anderson's birth, created for"
"Christopher Columbus (Grant Park) Christopher Columbus is a bronze statue of explorer Christopher Columbus in Grant Park, in Chicago. It was created by Milanese-born sculptor Carlo Brioschi, and installed in 1933. It is set on an exedra and pedestal designed with the help of architect Clarence H. Johnson. In 1933, Chicago celebrated its 100th anniversary with the Century of Progress World's Fair. In conjunction with the fair, Chicago's Italian-American community raised funds and donated the statue of the Genoese navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus. It was placed at the south end of Grant Park, near the site of the fair,"
"known for its statuary. Walking through the park, one sees many of Chicago's great works of art. There is a famous statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the same sculptor who created . Replicas of Lincoln Park's ""Standing Lincoln"" can be found at Lincoln's tomb, Springfield and in Parliament Square, London. The statue is located at Dearborn Street and North Avenue. It was fully restored in 1989 by the Lincoln Park Conservancy's Adopt-A-Monument Program, and 8,200 s.f. of formal gardens were added in front of the monument. The only other person immortalized by statues in both"
"erected in Central Park. The project was eventually abandoned due to lack of funding, but Miranda's ""Bust of Cervantes"" stood in the park for more than a quarter-century. He designed a 100-foot diameter fountain honoring Christopher Columbus to be erected in Central Park along 5th Avenue, but sculptor Gaetano Russo's Columbus Monument already was planned for nearby Columbus Circle. Alternate sites for the fountain were proposed at Battery Park and Harlem, but this project also was abandoned. Instead of an original work by Miranda, Central Park commissioned a copy of sculptor Jeronimo Suñol's Columbus statue in Madrid, which was dedicated"
"Museum of the United States Air Force, the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum located in Dayton; The Wilds, one of the world's largest conservation centers located in Cumberland; the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium; Lake Erie; and the annual Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus. Other notable attractions include the Toledo Museum of Art, the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial in Niles, the Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in Belmont County, the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, the Boonshoft"
"wildflowers, and a pansy bed with 10,000 plants, designed into an oval floral ""carpet"" with a pattern that changes each year. Highland Park has a natural amphitheater, sunken garden, a Gothic-style edifice (known as the ""Warner Castle""), and a conservatory greenhouse called Lamberton Conservatory. A statue of Frederick Douglass overlooks the amphitheater. The outdoor amphitheater (Highland Park Bowl) is used for summertime concerts, Shakespeare in the Park, and the Free Movies in the Parks series. The park consists of many themed / memorial gardens: The Greater Rochester Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The AIDS Remembrance Garden and the Poet's Garden are located"
"other amusement park in the world, as of 2016. Holiday World & Splashin' Safari Holiday World & Splashin' Safari (known as Santa Claus Land prior to 1984) is a combination theme park and water park located near Interstate 64 and U.S. 231 in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States. The theme park is divided into four sections that celebrate Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July with rides, live entertainment, games, and attractions. Holiday World is known for its three wooden roller coasters: ""The Raven"", ""The Legend"", and ""The Voyage"", as well as for ""Thunderbird"", a B&M launched Wing Coaster"
"Freedom, and Strength. Brioschhi's son made a point of saying that, despite appearances, the figure representing ""Strength"" was not a portrait of Benito Mussolini. Christopher Columbus (Grant Park) Christopher Columbus is a bronze statue of explorer Christopher Columbus in Grant Park, in Chicago. It was created by Milanese-born sculptor Carlo Brioschi, and installed in 1933. It is set on an exedra and pedestal designed with the help of architect Clarence H. Johnson. In 1933, Chicago celebrated its 100th anniversary with the Century of Progress World's Fair. In conjunction with the fair, Chicago's Italian-American community raised funds and donated the statue"
"the 19th century, and the remaining estate was bought by Christiania municipality in 1896 and made into a public park. It was the site of the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition, and Vigeland's sculpture arrangement was constructed from the 1920s. In addition to the sculpture park, the manor house and a nearby pavilion, the park also contains Frognerbadet (the Frogner Baths) and Frogner Stadium. The Frogner Pond is found in the centre of the park. Frogner Park is the largest park in the city and covers 45 hectares; the sculpture installation is the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist."
"Lincoln Park Lincoln Park is a park situated along Lake Michigan on North Side in Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N) on the south to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. Several museums and a zoo are located between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the eponymous neighborhood. Further to the north, the park is characterized by parkland, beaches, recreational areas, nature"
"Marshall Park (Charlotte, North Carolina) Marshall Park is a six and a half acre urban park at 800 East Third Street in the Second Ward of Charlotte, North Carolina. It features a large fountain and a lake, an amphitheater, a statue of Martin Luther King, and a Holocaust memorial monument. The park contains large open grassy areas with an unobstructed view of the Charlotte skyline. The Park is named for James B. Marshall who was the City Manager of Charlotte from 1935 through 1940. Because of its proximity to center city, Marshall Park is occasionally the site of protester camps"
"in Highland Park South. Highland Park hosts Rochester's annual Lilac Festival in May, which is the largest festival of its kind in North America and draws spectators from all over the globe. The Rochester Civic Garden Center, housed in Warner Castle, offers public access to a horticultural and botanical library of over 4,000 volumes and sponsors an ongoing series of educational courses. Since 1997, Rochester Community Players' Shakespeare Players have performed an annual free Shakespeare in the Park production of one of William Shakespeare's plays in early July at the Highland Park Bowl. On September 17, 1950 a monument was"
"known as Chicago Citizens of German Descent. The original work is regarded as the masterpiece of its sculptor, Ernst Bildhauer Rau. To the west, the ""William Shakespeare Monument"" by William Ordway Partridge sits in an old English garden. Installed in 1894, it was purchased through a bequest from Samuel Johnston, a Chicago real estate and railway tycoon. Eli Bates Fountain, also known as ""Storks at Play"", is in the center of the formal garden. It is composed of a large, circular granite basin, two bronze storks (or, possibly, herons) with outstretched wings and water spewing water from their beaks, three"
"Frogner Park Frogner Park () is a public park located in the borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway, and is historically part of Frogner Manor. The manor house is located in the south of the park, and houses the Oslo City Museum. Both the park, the entire borough of Frogner as well as Frognerseteren derive their names from Frogner Manor. Frogner Park contains, in its present centre, the well-known ""Vigeland installation"" (; originally called the ""Tørtberg installation""), a permanent sculpture installation created by Gustav Vigeland between 1924 and 1943. Although sometimes incorrectly referred to in English as the ""Vigeland (Sculpture)"
"the old stadium. At the site of the old Frogner Stadium, there are now tennis courts. Frogner Park Frogner Park () is a public park located in the borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway, and is historically part of Frogner Manor. The manor house is located in the south of the park, and houses the Oslo City Museum. Both the park, the entire borough of Frogner as well as Frognerseteren derive their names from Frogner Manor. Frogner Park contains, in its present centre, the well-known ""Vigeland installation"" (; originally called the ""Tørtberg installation""), a permanent sculpture installation created by Gustav"
"afford a base. By 1930, the Board of Aldermen had renamed the park, on the east side of the Astoria Boulevard (BMT Astoria Line) station, Columbus Square. The statue was dedicated in 1941, but that year it provoked an argument between Queens Borough President George U. Harvey and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. During World War II, the statue was removed and hidden on fears of being taken for war-use scrap metal. After some years in warehouses and the basement of Queens Borough Hall, it was reinstalled on its base. Christopher Columbus (Racioppi) Columbus is a statue in Astoria, Queens created"
"mushroom, playing with her cat, while the Mad Hatter and the March Hare look on. Not too far away, just West of the model boat house, there is a statue of Hans Christian Andersen, holding an open book, with the diminutive hero of The Ugly Duckling in front of him. There are about a dozen other statues in the park and its Mall. Outdoor sculpture in New York City The collection of outdoor sculpture in New York City is said to be the ""greatest outdoor public art museum"" in the United States of America. With works from such great sculptors"
"Holiday World & Splashin' Safari Holiday World & Splashin' Safari (known as Santa Claus Land prior to 1984) is a combination theme park and water park located near Interstate 64 and U.S. 231 in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States. The theme park is divided into four sections that celebrate Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July with rides, live entertainment, games, and attractions. Holiday World is known for its three wooden roller coasters: ""The Raven"", ""The Legend"", and ""The Voyage"", as well as for ""Thunderbird"", a B&M launched Wing Coaster and The Howler. The safari-themed water park includes the"
"Ferdinand (1842–1929) followed in his father's footsteps and is known in the United States for some of the figures on the Tyler Davidson Fountain in Cincinnati (at the unveiling on October 6, 1871, at which he was honored). He also created the statues of Shakespeare, Columbus and Alexander von Humboldt in Tower Grove Park of St. Louis and of J. Marion Sims in New York. Another son of Ferdinand von Miller was Oskar von Miller, who became an engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Ferdinand von Miller Ferdinand von Miller (18 October 1813 – 11 February 1887) was"
"and gardens, its abundant green space is rather unusual among the world's leading theme parks. 1952 - Fairytale Forest (Dutch: ""Sprookjesbos""; Anton Pieck, Peter Reijnders, Ton van de Ven, Henny Knoet, Michel den Dulk, Karel Willemen and Pim-Martijn Sanders)<br> 1954 - Children's Railway (Dutch: ""Kinderspoor""), (pedal trains, Anton Pieck and Peter Reijnders) <br> 1954 - Anton Pieck Square (Dutch: ""Anton Pieckplein""), (square with nostalgic rides, Anton Pieck and Michel den Dulk) <br> 1956 - Stoomcarrousel (carousel, bought from L. Janvier)<br> 1969 - Stoomtrein (a narrow-gauge heritage railway)<br> 1971 - Diorama (Model railway/ Diorama, Anton Pieck)<br> 1978 - Haunted Castle (Dutch:"
"Tjuvholmen Sculpture Park Tjuvholmen skulpturpark is a sculpture park in the Tjuvholmen neighborhood of Frogner borough in Oslo, Norway. It is close to Aker Brygge. The park opened 10 August 2012, as part of a £20 million development plan for Tjuvholmen. It consists of seven pieces of art created by notable international contemporary artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, Ugo Rondinone, and Franz West. It was expanded in 2013 with several additional sculptures. The sculptures stand out against the Oslofjord, with a view to the Akershus Castle and Akershus Fortress,"
"Lise"" or Lise's favourite spot. The park has had many well-known visitors, particularly during the period when Martha de la Calmette, Antoine's daughter-in-law, lived there as a widow for 57 years until her death in 1877. They included the Danish Romantic poet, Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger and the sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen, but the most famous of all was Hans Christian Andersen who visited the park in the summer of 1829 when he was only 24 and found it delightful. Liselund must have made a deep impression on Andersen as his poem ""Klintekorset paa Møen"" or Møn's Cliff Cross was inspired by"
"Larz Anderson Park Larz Anderson Park is a wooded, landscaped, and waterscaped parkland in Brookline, Massachusetts that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The southwest corner of the park is in Boston. The park contains playing fields, picnic areas, gardens, waterways, an ice skating rink, and two sites of special interest: As Larz Anderson Park is about a half-mile away from Jamaica Pond it might also be considered a ""de facto"" extension of Boston's Emerald Necklace into the town of Brookline. Set amidst a landscape of ponds and trees are athletic fields, historic buildings and a skating"
"and sidestreets including 19th-century rowhouses, Victorian and Edwardian mansions. Many of the multi-family buildings are pre-war, built during the period of expansive growth in the 1920s and 1930s, sometimes Art Deco style. including The Hague, residence of one of the city's best-known mayor, Frank Hague. Among the many landmarks in the area are the Fairmount Apartments, Temple Beth-El, and the former Jersey City YMCA. ""Lincoln the Mystic"", a statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln by James Earle Fraser is situated at the entrance to the park which bears the president's name. and is one of the Hudson County's largest public"
"use of soldiers, and transformed several main roads into large avenues. The Wergeland Park was constructed in 1859–60. It is surrounded by many old and important buildings, such as the Cathedral (1696/1737/1885), ""Latinskolen"" (1736/1855) and the City Hall (1864). The Ravnedalen Park was constructed in the 1870s as a romantic garden, in a valley with dramatic cliffs, waterfalls and lake. It has open areas for public arrangements like concerts, gatherings and festivals. Gustav Lærum's bronze statue of Wergeland in Ravnedalen Park (above) was unveiled in 1917. Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland (17 November 1815 – 19 August"
"Stark Park Stark Park is a city park located on the north side of Manchester, New Hampshire. It is a parcel of land between River Road and the Merrimack River, which was once part of the larger farm property of American Revolutionary War hero John Stark. The centerpieces of the park are the Stark Burial Ground, where Stark and some of his family are interred, and the 1948 bronze equestrian statue of Stark made by sculptor Richard Henry Recchia. The park was formally opened in 1893, making it one of the city's oldest parks (only Derryfield Park is older). It"