Iron Workers Aid Tubman Journey to Newburgh

By Barry Lewis, Vice President of Communications for CCA

Members of Iron Workers Local 417 donated their time and expertise to help deliver and install a bronze statue of famed abolitionist and political activist Harriet Tubman to the plaza of the Newburgh Free Library in October. Local 417 Business Manager Mike Gaydos, left, and Local 417 President Mike Stoddard, right, help Vice President Michael “Doc” Dunn maneuver the grader, taking the 9-foot-tall, 2,400-pound statue off a flat-bed trailer and slowly carrying it to the front of the library and placing down before a cheering crowd. The delicate move and placement of the statue took nearly 30 minutes to complete. Tubman led enslaved people to freedom using the Underground Railroad.

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Local 754 Rockland County, NY