The Peace statue in Pulteney Park is a beloved, and sometimes decorated, part of Geneva. Did you know she has a twin sister in North Carolina? In the mid-1930s, the Geneva Central Council of Veterans pursued getting a memorial monument for the city. The Works Progress Administration provided $10,000, probably through the Federal Art Project. A young artist in Buffalo, Jean MacKay, was hired to create the monument at a time when few women were sculptors. She made a classical figure of a woman kneeling with her sword in the ground to symbolize peace. The model was completed in 1938 and sent to ...