"What Impresses Me about Mary Baker Eddy," said Lynn sculptor Reno Pisano at last December's unveiling of his bronze relief of Mrs. Eddy, "is the power and the strength of her convictions. She had an imperative from which she would not be swayed. The establishment was intimidated by the originality of her thought and by the fact that she was a woman."
Mr. Pisano spoke with the Journal after a ceremony in the coastal city of Lynn, 11 miles north of Boston, during which educational, cultural, and business leaders gathered to dedicate a marker commemorating Mrs. Eddy's contribution to the community and to American religious history.
It was while living in Lynn that Mrs. Eddy completed the first edition of her major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in 1875.
