Mary McLeod Bethune statue’s Washington, D.C., unveiling will be delayed for a few months
DAYTONA BEACH — The grand unveiling of the Mary McLeod Bethune sculpture in Washington, D.C., is going to be delayed by nearly four months.
Blame COVID.
The hope had been to formally present the masterfully chiseled white marble sculpture on Feb. 2 in the U.S. Capitol building’s National Statuary Hall.
But COVID protocols made it impossible to throw the in-person gala that had been planned, said Nancy Lohman, head of the local committee that coordinated the creation and funding of the statue.
“I am so very sorry to deliver this news to you,” Lohman wrote last week in an announcement sent to donors and supporters of the years-long statue project. “Please know that the statue is safe and in a...
