Atdtda22: [42.1i] Modern poetry, 607

[Monte Davis]

I wrote:

>>          "The first heretic who tended to Unitarian Doctrine 
>>          has a statue in Springfield Mass. One of the finest 
>>          works St. Gaudens has produced. It is the statue of 
>>          William Pynchon..

> Ecce homo.
> 
> http://americanart.si.edu/1001/2002/04/images/bronzepuritan_1b.jpg

My bad, for accepting a random weblog's pairing of words and image; fine as
it is, the statue is "The Puritan," loosely representing not Bad Bill
Pynchon but his fellow Springfield founder Deacon Samuel Chapin.

Try the image here instead:

http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/pynchon.html

If there is indeed a William Pynchon statue in Springfield, I can't find an
image of it on the Web. )(And Robin, I can't find the paragraph above in
either the Punchard book you linked to before it or the Wikipedia entry on
Springfield you linked to after).