Foster

Comment by Matthew Mickletz on July 4, 2012 at 9:27am

Awesome!  Thanks for sharing!  I gotta stop there the next time I head out to Ohio.

Comment by Bell Banjos on July 5, 2012 at 3:16pm

Nice.

Comment by razyn on October 19, 2012 at 10:09am

I was just searching to see if anybody here had mentioned that statue, after spotting it in the Wiki article on Foster.  The banjo picker is our friend Uncle Ned.  It's a 1900 statue (by Giuseppe Moretti), which would account for the slightly farby banjo in the hands of a guy who was already dead in the 1848 song about him.  But how often does one see a fretless banjo in public sculpture?  Here's another shot, that can be viewed in high resolution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stephen_Foster_Monument_-_Pittsbu...

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