Pepsy Kettavong sculpture
In 1983 LUCC sponsored the Kettavongs, a Laotian refugee family fleeing persecution in their homeland. Pepsy Kettavong, the oldest son in the family, graduated from Rochester Institute of Tecnology in 1995 and has since become a renowned sculptor.
On Thursday, March 13 at 8pm WXXI (cable 11) aired LET'S HAVE TEA. This documentary, produced by Pepsy, tells a great American stroy of two of the greatest social revolutionaries of the nineteenth century: Susan B Anthony, the suffragist, and Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist. Kettavong was commissioned to create a bronze sculpture of the two, which is located at the park on the corner of South Avenue and Gregory Street.
