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Photo of Bon Echo Rock ("Big Rock")

2003-133
Accession Number
2003-133
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350296935
Keywords
Monuments
Poets
HST Keywords
Bon Echo, "Big Rock", Dedication; Canada - Toronto; Denison, Theppie - Ref to; Whitman, Walt - Ref to
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Description
Photo of Bon Echo Rock ("Big Rock") whose sheer granite face was dedicated to Walt Whitman in 1919 and inscribed as follows: "Old Walt, 1819-1919,Dedicated to the democratic ideals of Walt Whitman by Horace Trubel and Flora Macdonald -"My foothold is ten'd and martised in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution And I know the amplitude of time." The Rock is situated at the junction of the Upper and Lower Mazinaw Lakes on Ontario High 41, Canada. The people sitting at the base of the rock are unidentified. On the back of the photo is an inscription to Harry S. Truman as follows: "To Harry S. Truman. Salut! Whose high reput like Walt Whitman is "tenon'd and mortised in granite," with abiding admiration via his old friend, P. F. Balfour, who paid me a visit at Bon Echo on June 7, 1955, on his 80th birthday. Theppie Denison. From: Merrill Denison.
Date(s)
June 7, 1955