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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you been to that "park"? (It's not really a park, it's a plaza between buildings) It's been in need of work by the National Park Service for years, and the addition of exhibits describing the importance of the location to both the native people and the Europeans who settled there is a good thing.

And about the statue - it's a small copy of the 37-foot statue of Penn which is on top of Philadelphia's City Hall building. So calm yourself, no one is being "canceled."

https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/william-penn/[/quote]

No. It’s the ONLY site in the city dedicated to the life and ideas of its founder. [/quote]

According to PP:

[quote] So it turns out at least part of the site was land given by grandson John Penn to the Haudenosaunee "in perpetuity" for their diplomatic and trade delegations. This is based on both Quaker and Native American historical records. [/quote]

As a Quaker, Penn would abhor having a site like this dedicated to himself. It’s not modest. [/quote]

Sounds like the park [i]is[/i] modest, isn't that the complaint?  Too boring?[/quote]

It isn’t the quality of the park he’d reject it’s the entire notion of having a park dedicated to him with his effigy in the middle of it. Have you ever been inside a Quaker meeting house? (That’s what they call their “churches”—since you seem unfamiliar with Quakerism.)[/quote]

There's Quakers and then there's Quakers.

Anyway, he founded a state.  That's inescapable, no matter how modest he might have wanted to be.  Or how much some want to deny/downplay it.  [/quote]

No one’s denying that. No books are being burned or banned. Plenty to go read about. That’s a better way to honor him if that’s what you want to do. [/quote]

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