Temperance Union Lion Statue - lil' Las Vegas, New Mexico

From "Save the LION" - a local Facebook group in the original Las Vegas, NEW MEXICO:

"Fountain Park” (The Triangle, Lion Park) started as an open patch of ground where wagons parked. In 1896, the Women's Christian Temperance Union employed a local stonemason, Angelo de Tullio, to design and sculpt a fountain. They hoped to offer an alternative watering hole to the neighboring saloons. De Tullio’s fountain is dominated by an angelic-looking lion. This stiffly-rendered piece of folk sculpture s