Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite, was a chemist, engineer, businessman and, most memorably, philanthropist; he was also a scholar, fluent in Russian, French, English and German. Above all, he loved poetry.
The town of Sheffield apparently doesn’t want the monument to go anywhere but into the “wilderness.” It came to Sheffield after the Great Barrington Historical Society declared the UFO sighting “historically significant and true.”
