Treasury Gardens
Historic nineteenth-century park with diagonal tree-lined paths and a bronze presidential memorial by a lake.
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This guide to Treasury Gardens leads you to a small island in the ornamental lake, where a bronze face is set into a granite boulder, not a king or a governor but an American president memorialized within two years of his death. It follows the shock of Kennedy's 1963 assassination reaching Melbourne, sculptor Raymond Ewers' career casting the faces of the dead into bronze, and the choice he faced over which Kennedy to show. Stand on the bridge to the island and look closely at the expression he settled on.
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