Reaching Lady Statue for 9/11 Memorial to be Installed Thursday July 10 at Croton River Walk

‘The following press release was sent in by Bob Foley, Volunteer Public Relations Chair for the Task Force of the BCC 9/11 Memorial.

Reaching Lady’ Sculpture for BCC 9/11 Memorial to be Installed July 10th at Croton Landing--

The bronze figurative sculpture to complete the final phase of the Reaching Through The Shadow Buchanan*Cortlandt*Croton-on-Hudson (BCC) 9/11 Remembrance Memorial at Croton Landing will arrive at the site along the Croton RiverWalk on Thursday, July 10th, at approximately 12noon and will take approximately 4 hours to install, according to Janet Mainiero of Croton, project director.

The sculpture was created by Lauren Davis from Croton. Ms. Davis worked on the statue in a studio generously donated by Westchester Industrial Complex in Buchanan. The bronze was cast using the lost-wax technique at Modern Art Foundry in Queens.

The statue will be installed on a boulder near the 14-foot steel beam recovered from the fallen North Tower of the World Trade Center.

The design of the Memorial, entitled Reaching Through The Shadow, was a collaboration between Ms. Davis and James W. Rhodes, FAIA, formerly of Croton. The installation of the sculpture will complete the Memorial, which is a sundial registered with the North American Sundial Society. There is also an adjacent Remembrance Garden at the site alongside the Hudson River.

There will be a formal dedication ceremony of the whole Memorial complex later in year on Sept. 11, 2014.

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