University Friends Meeting

Our garden coordinator, Ellie Duffield, just reported some new decoration at Peace Park, across the street from the Meeting House
"The Peace Park was the dream of Dr. Floyd Schmoe, a long time member of our meeting, who after winning the Hiroshima Peace Prize in 1998 used the $5,000 prize money to clear a small lot near the University of Washington. From a pile of wrecked cars, garbage, and brush, he worked with community volunteers to build the beautiful Peace Park.
Peace Park is the current home of the Sadako and the Thousand Cranes sculpture, created in 1990 by artist Daryl Smith. The statue is a life-size bronze of Sadako Sasaki, the young Japanese girl who survived the Hiroshima bombing only to die of radiation sickness at age 12."