In 1959, the Bath Garden Club commissioned William Zorach, a noted sculptor who summered in Georgetown, to create a fountain for the pond in Bath’s City Park. Mr. Zorach offered to donate his work if the Club would pay for casting the statue in bronze, providing the granite pedestal and base, and plumbing and installing the fountain. The Garden Club accepted, and succeeded in raising the necessary $15,000, a substantial sum then. On August 5,1962, the Spirit of the Sea was unveiled and presented to the City of Bath by Mr. Zorach and the Garden Club at a ceremony by the pond in the City Park. In the years that have intervened, the weather, the iron content of city water and general wear and tear, have caused deterioration of the surface, some unhealthy cracks, and both bronze and black granite to take on the color of mud. The sculpture has been restored once, but it is clear that it needs ongoing care. The Friends have devoted themselves to this effort.