A Maryland sculptor has completed a replica of Little Italy’s controversial Christopher Columbus statue, and a local group plans to bring it back to Baltimore.
Eastern Shore artist Will Hemsley created the new statue using pieces of the original retrieved from Baltimore’s harbor, where the monument was tossed after it was toppled by protesters on the Fourth of July two years ago.
“The statue is done,” said John A. Pica Jr., a former state senator who is president of Italian American Organizations United Inc. and chairman of Italian Heritage Festival Committee. “We are now searching for an appropriate home for it.”
