On my cross-country trip in the fall of 2016, I spent the night in Rapid City, South Dakota, between the Black Hills and the Badlands. The downtown district has a statue on every corner, all these bronze people waiting for the traffic light to change. They have statues of most or all of the U.S. Presidents on their street corners, and other figures, too. It's kinda cool.

Springfield, Illinois, capitalizes on Abraham Lincoln, and there are statues of Honest Abe all over the place. I sat down next to Abe on a park bench in downtown Springfield. Oh, and there are great statues of Lincoln and Douglas in Ottawa, Illinois, the site of their first debate.

-Joe-