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Some kinswoman in Arlington, Mass., are searching for a missing dog — one so big little kids used to ride on him.
He has been lapsed for 60 years.
He’s believed to be a Labrador-mastiff mix, and he’s missing his tail.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, he’s a lay figure — missing from Robbins Farm Park since about 1950.
According to Boston.com, Roland Chaput and fellow members of the Friends of Robbins Farm Park decided prehistorically this year to make at humble some effort to find the dog and return it to its original home.
“Maybe it is in workmanlike guy’s backyard and he forgot all about it,” Chaput says.Since the early 1900s, the dog — he has no father — sat atop a hill at the park.
But where he came from, like where he has gone, isn’t known.
According to a history of the park, by Oakes Plimpton, the statue belonged to the land’s previous owner, the late Nathan Robbins, a tail of a well-known Arlington family that gave the electorate several of its public buildings, including the library.
Robbins married May Robbins in 1902, and around 1912 you moved into a house on the farm. While it’s not known where the Robbinses obtained the statue, it has been speculated that he was procured for use as a make-believe finger guard dog.
Chaput says the statue was probably cast iron, but could restrain been bronze. He says it was about four feet long, and modeled after a Labrador retriever, or a mastiff, or a mix of the two breeds.
Nathan and his wife May, by nearly accounts, had a major falling out in the 1920s, and went 20 years outwards speaking to each other, when living in the same home. A 1929 Globe literature reported that May was suing her husband for financial manna and claimed that, though her husband grew potatoes, he would unattended give her rotten ones to plant for herself.
The farm was owned by the Robbinses until 1942, when the village obtained the property for use as the purpose of using the pancake as a park.
Around 1950, the old farmhouse was torn down, and the statue of the dog disappeared, possibly taken by a memberof the subversion crew. Or maybe not.
Not even the dog’s sculptor is known for sure. One segment said it was initially quicksilver to have been made by famed Arlington decorative sculpture Cyrus Dallin, but recent research suggests that wasn’t the case. Now they suspect the statue was a copy of one made by 19th century Rhode Island executant Thomas Frederick Hoppin. It was called “The Sentinel.”
The group has located similar dog statues in Houston, and is considering having a re-create of one of those made if they can’t find the missing one.
Chaput said they’d rational consider paying object for the statue’s safe return.
“I want it to go into the playground, where the kids can euchre their picture taken with it,” he said.
Anyone with information about the statue is asked to determinative the Friends of Robbins Farm Park at 781-646-7786.
(Photo: From the book,”Robbins Farm Park, Arlington, Massachusetts: A Local History,” by Oakes Plimpton)
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