One of Lovecraft’s favourite places in both childhood and adulthood, York Pond in Blackstone Park on the banks of the Seekonk, appears to be set for a pedestrian path makeover. The proposals are dated April 2019 and plan to add…

“pedestrian improvements along the Boulevard to link the adjacent community to the Seekonk River and incorporate a network of paths along York Pond [to the Seekonk]”

I’m not sure if the paths have backing from the city or not. Possibly they’re just a proposal to help greenwash a development? But if they do go ahead, then is there an opportunity here to site the Lovecraft statue as part of these changes? Or some similar memorial? Poe also haunted the shoreline here, which might suggest an artistic plaque or bas-relief depicting Poe and Lovecraft together. At the very least some temporary inaugural installations in wicker-sculpture might be sited around the completed paths, which could use themes drawn from the work of Poe and Lovecraft. Here’s an example of the sort of wicker-sculpture I mean, to be seen each spring near me in my local woods here in the UK…