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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20030904
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Byline: DICK CASE NEIGHBORHOODS

Sharon BuMann says she's fallen in love with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

She's not alone.

Ninety-two years ago, Syracusans of German descent raised a 27-foot monument to the two German poets on a terrace of a drumlin on the city's North Side. The memorial's still imposing after nearly a century of looking out of Schiller Park to Butternut Street, even though it took plenty of hits from vandals during the last 20 years.

"Stones, bricks, bottles, you name it," Sharon's saying the other day ...

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