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Ether Monument undergoes face-lift and a good scrubbing

September 28, 2006

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The first sculpture in the 169 -year-old Public Garden was not a memorial to a war hero, a tribute to a mayor, or the bust of a governor. Instead, the first public art in America's earliest botanical garden was a 40 -foot granite fountain dedicated to a drug. (Full article: 256 words)

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