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Old World Masonry had the privelege of sculpting the monument erected to honor John Peters Humphrey who helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. John Peters Humphrey was a native of Hampton, New Brunswick.

This project was undertaken by the John Peters Humphrey Foundation to help remember his legacy in Hampton, the Foundation has worked towards establishing a John Peters Humphrey Interpretive Site in the centre of the town. “Credo”, an interactive human rights sculpture, is the focus, and is now located in the centre of

Hampton on the historic Courthouse lawn. This major work has been created by Hooper Studios working with Darren Byers as a memorial to John Humphrey and his legacy. A series of interpretive panels have been strategically placed linking the Credo Sculpture Project, the old Humphrey homestead and John Humphrey’s gravesite. These panels feature Humphrey’s biography, his relationship to Hampton, the history of the United Nations and the story of the creation of the Declaration of Human Rights.

This was the work of three artists. Ludwig Hartmann who worked on the two sandstone monoliths, one of which is a trickling fountain and the other which has four articles of the Declaration, each one hand-carved (as the sandstone was too rough for automated ingraving) in one of the languages of New Brunswick, English, French, Mi’kmaq and Maliseet-Passamaquoddy...

Darren Byers who carved the figures and built the bench. Carved from mahogany, Humphrey is represented both as a mature adult holding a sheet of notes and the small boy who lived in Hampton and sailed his boats on the creek. The figures are seated on a circular bench, symbolic of unity and reminiscent of the United Nations.

Kathy Hooper who primarily designed the whole project painted the finished carving and sculpted the three bronze doves which feed on the end of the bench. Her daughter, Susan Hooper was the graphic designer for the project including the display panels giving further information and illustrations of the life of John Peter's Humphrey.