Community organizers, who have collected nearly 400 signatures on a petition, oppose the city’s plans for the future of a life-sized statue of Adams and her young son that was removed from a park in Quincy Center nine years ago.  An  Erin Clark/Boston Globe image.

– News about Quincy Massachusetts covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

The Second First Lady and one of the most important women of the American Revolution
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Quincy Residents protest Abigail Adams statue’s change of venue.

One can only properly view something happening in Quincy is an especially bad thing when the Boston broadsheet is coving the story. 

Moreover, in this instance, even the SouthShore broadsheet followed up with an article.

In this instance, Quincy residents are protesting Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch’s unilateral decision to kick something – or, in this instance, two beloved things – that had long been on display in front of Quincy’s two city halls in what is now better known to Quincy Quarry’s ever-growing legions of loyal readers as Kim Jong Koch Plaza.

Anyone know what happened to John Adams’ statute?
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In this instance, Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch has banished the accessible, inspired, and lively statute of Abigal and John Quincy to an out-of-the-way new placement in Merrymount Park as well as who knows what the Q is planned for the complementary statue of John Adams.

Instead, Mayor Thomas Koch spent upwards on half a million dollars on leaden, lifeless, and arguably barely indistinguishable from other old school heroic statues of John Hancock and John Adams that he had to commission a Soviet-era born and Soviet-trained sculptor to fashion such stiff, banal, and old school “heroic” style statues that all but went out of fashion long ago other than in autocratically-run societies.

Then again, Quincy Mayor Thomas P, Koch has a soft spot for Soviet emigres. 

Or at least their money anyway.

So what, apparently, for the fact, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and John Haccok were born in what was Braintree at the time of their births and thus Quincy as the City of President is technically a stretch, much less the fact that Abigal Adams, the wife of John Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams, and one of the most important women during both the American Revolution as well as early days of United States of America.

Quick — without reading the bases: which leaden statue is of John Adams?
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Then again, when it comes to females, especially those of substance, Quincy Mayor Koch can readily be argued to be an old-school boyo.

After all, his administration is thin in females in important roles outside of those typically female (e.g, heading the library system, ostensibly in charge of Human Resources, as well as are few and far between in the ranks of the police and fire departments as police officers and firefighters and instead most female city employees are in administrative support roles or teachers..

And adding further insult to injury, not only did Mayor Koch load up the somewhat recently opened Generals Park in Quincy Center with statues of male general officers, he so also slighted naval flag officers in a city that was once the home of one of the United States’ most important naval ship construction facilities.

Source: Disappointment in Quincy at Abigail Adams statue’s change of venue

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