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After many years of dreaming, preparation, and planning, an inspiring statue of Lewis and Harriet Hayden has risen on North Limestone Street in Lexington, Kentucky. Sculptor Basil Watson has fashioned the couple in bronze gesturing Northward where they became leading abolitionists, having escaped enslavement in their native Kentucky. This monument, a project of the Lexington Freedom Train, of which our dear friend Larry Kezele is a passionate member, will eventually be surrounded by a pocket park with benches and interpretive signage, a fitting place to contemplate the Town's, the State's, and the Nation's past.