Who Cares A Boat Died
by Paddy Shaffer
Title
Who Cares A Boat Died
Artist
Paddy Shaffer
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Downtown Columbus and in the midst of construction half of the Santa Maria boat sits on a semi trailer, the other half lays in a construction mess on the bank of the Scioto River. This is the Broad Street Bridge, with Columbus City Hall sitting just above the construction zone. Death slams the beautiful Santa Maria boat that was part of the Columbus, Ohio downtown for many years. It is an actual model of the Santa Maria boat that Christopher Columbus had in his group of three vessels. It was a historic and lovely boat, regardless of any controversy on Christopher Columbus. And... we are in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman ordered the killing, city council voted to fund it, and a group of men actually dissected the boat, including cutting her in half. This is the heartbreaking situation I found the boat in a little after 5:00 p.m. on August 27, 2014. Half of it wounded in the place where it used to float in the Scioto River, the other half on a big Mack semi truck. The men hired to move it claimed it would all be trucked out around 6:00, and the guy did not know where it was going. Yeah right. Possibly they will just get on the outerbelt and drive it in circles around the city. This all made me very sad. I will upload several images of it. They threatened to have me arrested, while I took these pictures. For those interested, I have several other images of the boat since the project to rework the river channel began by the removal of a lowhead dam. Again, I wish the boat could be sent to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, and loved as it should be.
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August 28th, 2014
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