Tag Archives: Bringing the General Home

• Home at last

  Blog Post | Posted on March 16, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  Accompanied by the skirl of a piper and a crowd of more than a thousand cheering people, mainly students hooting and clanging bells, the striking bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Brock University, General Brock, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• The General has landed

  Blog Post | Posted on March 15, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  He’s home. Late Sunday afternoon, a truck pulled into St. Catharines bearing the double-life-sized bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock. The General — all 1.5 metric tons of him — is getting (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Brock University, General Brock, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Dodging those pesky overpasses

  Blog Post | Posted on March 15, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  DEFIANCE, Ohio — Rather than take a direct route toward a Canada-US border crossing, The General has been getting off the big US highways to check out towns like Napoleon, Ohio; Fort Wayne, (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Brock University, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Day 5: into the Great Lakes basin

  Blog Post | Posted on March 14, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  Heading toward Davenport, Iowa this morning, then on to Chicago and points east. After that we’ll go through the upper reach of Indiana, but then have to do a bit of strategic (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, General Brock, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Day 4: half way home

  Blog Post | Posted on March 13, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  Think Nebraska and it’s likely one of the following come to mind (a) corn; (b) college football (they seem to perennially be in one bowl game or another); (c) the Springsteen album; (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, General Brock, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Love it or leave it

  Blog Post | Posted on March 13, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  There’s something about American culture that Canadians — heck, people all over the world — find absolutely compelling. The USA is Canada’s biggest and most important ally, and not just because of (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): American culture, Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• The General battles the wind of the plains

  Blog Post | Posted on March 13, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  The sculpture of Maj.-Gen Sir Isaac Brock pulled into North Platte, Nebraska by Thursday night, knocking off another 930 kilometres of his ride home, even as the Great Plains wind lived up (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Isaac Brock
  

• Under big skies, The General keeps moving

  Blog Post | Posted on March 12, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  EVANSTON, Wyoming — Even a general has to obey the law. The large bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock started the day’s travels pulling into an Oregon truck stop, where driver (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• A gritty western town gives birth to beautiful art

  Blog Post | Posted on March 11, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  In sparsely-populated eastern Oregon, the town of Joseph, pop. 1,054, is the end of the line. To get there from the I-84, drive 100 kilometres along the Wallowa River, past occasional cattle and (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, General Brock