Film: Sanibel to Siberia

This short film profiles Spirit of the Rivers sculptor R.T. “Skip” Wallen and his two-year journey to create a bronze monument commemorating the World War II Lend-Lease program. Sculpted in Florida and installed in Alaska, the piece underscores America’s shift from isolationism, marked by the transfer of nearly 8,000 U.S. warplanes to Russian pilots who flew them across Siberia to the western front.

Lester Public Library.