I was looking up information on Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse monument and it came up that the sculptor of the Crazy Horse monument once carved a statue of Noah Webster that stirred a lot of controversy. What could be controversial about a statue of a lexicographer?
A contemporaneous article from Time seems to indicate there was objection to him working on Sunday, and that's understandable, but I don't understand the offense over the inscription. Was it the artists' unhappiness over the lack of funds? (I'm surprised he didn't bring that up in the Sabbath Scandal... well, it's not like I'm getting paid, you know.)
I guess it's hard for me to understand what the context of interpretation would have been in pre WWII New England.
