
VISION OF PEACE
Gift of St Paul Rotary to the Nagasaki Rotary Club
St Paul artist Bill Hueg created an eight-foot bronze replicate of the Vision of Peace, the iconic sulpture that has stood in the St. Paul City Hall/Ramsey County Counthouse since 1936.
(The memorial to the Minnesota 20th-century war dead was created by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles, who named it Indian God of Peace. He drew on memories of a Native American ceremony he witnessed in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Although there is no connection between Native American spirituality and his own vision, Milles depicted five Native Americans seated around a fire holding sacred pipes. Emerging from the smoke of those pipes is a "god of peace" which Milles imagined speaking to "all the world.”(
The bronze replica was installed at the entrance to the Nagasaki Peace Park and Nuclear Holocaust Museum in 2015.

St Paul Rotary visiting our sister club in Nagaski Rotary in Japan