Frank Film tells the story behind New Zealand’s first pacifist memorial, currently being built in Dunedin, which holds the story of Archibald and Millicent Baxter. “There are thousands of monuments to soldiers across New Zealand,” says Kevin Clements, chair of the Archibald Baxter Memorial Trust, “which is quite right and proper. The 3m-high sculpture by Arrowtown artist Shane Woolridge, due to be completed in September this year, will honour the legacy of New Zealand’s conscientious objectors and the personal story of Archibald Baxter. There was such a congruence of her love for him but also of her belief in what he stood for.”They came from very different backgrounds. Archibald Baxter grew up in a working class farming family in Brighton, just south of Dunedin.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 08, 2021 18:56 UTC