If you click on the photo it gets bigger so you can read the text. The gist of it is that Dr. Kate
Newcomb wanted to build a hospital in little
Woodruff, Wisconsin, and urged the local schoolchildren to save their pennies to help make it happen.
Dr. Kate's efforts ignited a penny drive that went wild. More than 1.5 million pennies were collected once the media got hold of the story. Children and grown-ups alike sent in pennies from across the country and Dr. Kate got her hospital. This is the city's memorial to her--there's also a museum but I didn't go to that. Just a quick stop on a road trip to check out the World's Largest Penny that now stands in Dr. Kate's honor.
If you click on the photo it gets bigger so you can read the text. The gist of it is that Dr. Kate Newcomb wanted to build a hospital in little Woodruff, Wisconsin, and urged the local schoolchildren to save their pennies to help make it happen.
Dr. Kate's efforts ignited a penny drive that went wild. More than 1.5 million pennies were collected once the media got hold of the story. Children and grown-ups alike sent in pennies from across the country and Dr. Kate got her hospital. This is the city's memorial to her--there's also a museum but I didn't go to that. Just a quick stop on a road trip to check out the World's Largest Penny that now stands in Dr. Kate's honor.
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