ALONG THE WALK RIVERFRONT SCULPTURES HARTFORD, CT << Emancipation, by Preston Jackson AROUND HAR TFORD A crisp fall day might be the perfect setting for a walk along Hartford’s riverrfont and an explo - ration of Riverrfont Recapture’s four connected parks, where sights include more than the city’s skyline and the calming mo- ve ment of the Connecticut River. Sculptures—including a series of 16 works dedicated to Abraham Lincoln—dot the welcoming banks. Riverrfont Recapture, the nonprofit that manag- es, main tains, and operates the parks and their riverwalks and trails, joined RECAPTURE the Greater Hartford Arts Council in collaborating in 2005 with Lincoln Financial—which awarded a $500,000 grant—to create the Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk. RIVERFRONT The ifnal sculpture was installed OF in 2011, and in 2016, Pulitzer Y Prize-winning presidential histo- TES rian Doris Kearns Goodwin helped OUR C : launch a mobile tour of the sculp- O T ture series that honors the coun- PHO try’s 16th president. ↗ For more information, please visit commons.trincoll.edu/Reporter. FALL 2021 9