Rendering of proposed statue.
Julie Nimoy, Leonard's daughter, today proposed erecting a 25-foot-high memorial in Boston to her father, in the form of the "live long and prosper" hand gesture he made famous.
It will honor @TheRealNimoy and will be a symbol for peace and tolerance worldwide. Dad would be so happy that this positive message could resonate with people for yrs to come.
Nimoy did not suggest a specific location for the memorial to the West End native and English High graduate, but a logical choice might be outside Beacon Hill's Vilna Shul, where, the ark in the former synagogue features the now familiar gesture from back in the day when it was an ancient Jewish religious symbol - one that congregation leaders made during services.
Also jumping on the Live Long and Prosper in Boston Campaign: William Shatner, who tweeted today:
This needs to happen! Leonard was very proud of his Boston roots.
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Art
By Don't Panic
Mon, 11/02/2020 - 12:38am
Art for arts sake back when the MBTA had money for that kind of stuff. Just about every indoor station got something. Forest Hills Station has boomerang mobiles.
I'm with the Nimoy statue making the gesture somewhere in the West End crowd.
How about near the Charles Bank Playground?
And the funding for this
By anon
Sat, 10/31/2020 - 6:46pm
And the funding for this comes from?
same place
By anon
Mon, 11/02/2020 - 12:01pm
Same place the LONG over due Bill Russell statue came from. Private investors.
hand gesture
By J.
Sat, 10/31/2020 - 9:27pm
The hand gesture may be ancient in origin but it is still very much part of contemporary Jewish liturgy.
If we're going to place a monument to Mr. Spock
By roadman
Sun, 11/01/2020 - 10:23am
then we also need a memorial to all the "He's Dead Jim" ensigns who perished in the first three minutes of each episode. Perhaps we could call it "The Tomb of the Unknown Star Trek Actors."
A giant red shirt.
By jmeltzer
Sun, 11/01/2020 - 2:43pm
Yeah, I could go for that.
They weren't unknown
By anon
Sun, 11/01/2020 - 4:01pm
Kirk went to the academy with all their fathers.
Nimoy Memorial in Boston
By Tom Stocker
Mon, 11/02/2020 - 12:05pm
Clearing up some concerns and misinformation about the proposed Nimoy Memorial:
It will be in a privately owned West End location yet to be determined. The Vilna Shul location is too small , and on a narrow street in a densely settled section of Beacon Hill , which is no longer considered part of the West End as it may have been before Urban renewal in the 1950's.
The project has been in discussion for five years since Leonard Nimoy died , and has been supported exclusively by private donations from dozens of citizens of Boston and people who have ties here . There will be no request of funds from the taxpayers of Boston.
There are very few memorials to native born Bostonians in the Arts. John Singleton Copley, no patriot and a Tory, fled Boston for London on the eve of the revolution never to return. Edgar Alan Poe left Boston despising the city. But Leonard Nimoy frequently returned to Boston to support charitable causes such as the Boys and Girls Club, as well as through his Foundation and national philanthropic organizations.
The universally recognized salutation "Live Long and Prosper", which was conceived from his formative memories of Boston, the city he loved, is reason enough to establish his Memorial.
adding a sister and a brother
By the real matt
Sat, 11/07/2020 - 11:07am
adding a sister and a brother was already weird enough.
what does god need with a spaceship?
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