Nearly five years ago, Karyn Olivier was selected to design a monument to Dinah, a servant who saved the Stenton mansion from the British in 1777. The memorial will be unveiled on Saturday.
This is the monument to Dinah at Stenton Mansion that Philadelphia sculptor Karyn Olivier created. It is to be officially unveiled on at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 20, 2024.
But Dennis Pickeral, Stenton’s executive director, said there was much more to Dinah’s life story than saving the mansion.In planning the memorial, he said, Stenton staff began learning more about Dinah. They already knew she had been enslaved by Hannah Emlen Logan, the wife of William Logan, who was James Logan’s son and proprietor of Stenton, when Dinah lived there.
“So, there was so much more to her life, and her life was so much richer, than the fact that she was a ‘colored caretaker.’“For Olivier, the absence of records about Dinah helped to shape her design. Artists to reveal how they will retell story of ‘Dinah,’ once known only as the ‘faithful colored caretaker’
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