PETA Wants To Replace a Lobsterman Statue With A Giant Lobster Crushing a Trap
The Maine Lobsterman statue in the plaza near the Nickelodeon in Portland, Maine, is one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. Modeled after H. Elroy Johnson, a fisherman from Bailey Island who was an advocate for Maine’s working fishermen and lobstermen, the statue was created by Portland sculptor Victor Kahill. The state commissioned Kahill to create the statue as the centerpiece of the Maine exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Following Johnson’s death in 1973, the Maine Legislature provided...
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