Please bring to the attention of the City Council in any discussion of the statue of the “little bronze boy” in the Cornelia Warren Greenway, that the members of the Westbrook Historical Society have adopted the view that it is most fittingly placed where it now stands between the pathway and the river.
The reason it was placed on that site in the first instance is clearly defined in words on its base that honor John E. Warren for his vision of Riverbank Park and his personal planning of the riverside pathway. We believe that any other location would diminish its historical importance as an integral part of the park system, and would subtract significantly from the pathway’s calm and untroubled beauty.
The general observation among our members at our April meeting was that the people who now see the memorial in its present setting are those same people Miss Cornelia Warren, John Warren, and others in the community had in mind when this area of tranquility was devised for them. It would be more suitable to the circumstances to improve awareness of the joys of that section of the river walk and the memorial to John E. Warren, and to display proper signs and directions for finding the way, than it would be to remove the statue from its natural surroundings.
Robert Smith
Westbrook Historical Society president
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