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By Brittany Cohill
mail@floridanewsline.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Nov. 17, 2024 and with hundreds in attendance, Mandarin Museum & Historical Society unveiled a new public art installation in Walter Jones Historical Park. Titled \u201cHarriet Beecher Stowe in Mandarin,\u201d the installation is a life-size bronze sculpture featuring Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century abolitionist and author of the 1852 anti-slavery novel, \u201dUncle Tom\u2019s Cabin.\u201d Mandarin Museum commissioned artist Brenda Councill to sculpt \u201cHarriet Beecher Stowe in Mandarin\u201d to reflect Stowe as she was while living in Mandarin during the winters of 1867 through 1884.
While in Mandarin, Stowe was a vocal advocate for Florida\u2019s uplift following the U.S. Civil War. She published \u201dPalmetto Leaves\u201d in 1873, a collection of essays regarding her life in Mandarin that also promoted Florida\u2019s potential for tourism, industry, and expanded education. Stowe was also a woman of action. She helped found and raise funds for the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour located on Mandarin Road; she operated an orange grove and shipped her produce to northern markets; and in 1869 she worked with the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau to establish a school for Black children in the community, providing the land and hiring the first teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is Harriet Beecher Stowe\u2019s devotion to greater access to education that the museum and Brenda Councill hoped to capture. The bronze sculpture features two young boys in addition to Stowe. The scene imagines the boys as laborers in her orange grove who have taken a break to sit with her as she reads to them and provides instruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarriet Beecher Stowe in Mandarin\u201d is on permanent outdoor display alongside Mandarin Museum and the park\u2019s 1898 St. Joseph\u2019s Mission Schoolhouse for African American Children. Also on permanent display inside the 1898 Schoolhouse is a time-lapse video showcasing the project from concept to completion. Brenda Councill\u2019s creative and sculpting process was meticulously documented by Olis Garber and Keith Bartholomew, local professional photographer-videographers. The results demonstrate the significance of this project and Councill\u2019s dedication to the \u201clost wax\u201d method of bronze sculpting, a method requiring great skill and patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarriet Beecher Stowe in Mandarin\u201d was made possible through the support of so many in the Mandarin community and the City of Jacksonville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo courtesy Olis Garber
Evinn Wilson, Beckham Morgan, Ebony Monroe, Devin Wilson, Mandarin Museum Executive Director Brittany Cohill, COJ Director of Parks Daryl Joseph, Sandy Arpen, Patrick Plumlee, Councilman Michael Boylan, Emily Lisska, Wanda Bosworth, and Brenda Councill.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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