A statue with the bowed head of Father Junipero Serra at the Serra Mission Museum, the former site of a fort and the first Pacific Coast European settlement.

Sherry V Smith
A statue with the bowed head of Father Junipero Serra at the Serra Mission Museum.

COMMENTARY: Should Americans Memorialize this Moment, the Statue Erected Wouldn’t Be a Man of the State, or of Letters or of the Cloth, But Ambiguous at Best.