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Oklahoma's and Norman's local flora, fauna, economy, history and environment. The latest bridge to be constructed, Lindsey Street Bridge, was completed in 2017. The Lindsey Street Bridge's aesthetic design features brick patterns, quoining, and a concrete panel that's cast front and back with a bas-relief image of the Seed Sower, an iconic figure of David Ross Boyd, the first president of the University of Oklahoma's Norman nearby campus.
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Caretakers - Dedicated in 1986 at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York City, “The Caretakers” commemorated the UN's fortieth anniversary and its first “International Youth Year.” Carved from a two-hundred-year-old American Elm, the sculpture depicts three young people nurturing a newly
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