Tag: monument
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WalkingTown, DC
Dear Friends: This spring’s WalkingTown, DC on April 26 and 27 includes two different tour offerings for the National Mall. See below. The National Coalition to Save Our Mall will […]
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Post letters: An Excess of Inaccessibility
Dear Coalition Friends: This story has legs. Today’s Washington Post has a cartoon by Tom Toles and two letters to the editor on the security/fear/public lack of access issue at […]
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Coalition Chair Judy Feldman Featured in Washington Post Article “Preservation Law Puts Leash on Mall Projects”
Today’s Washington Post — District of Columbia Thursday special section — contains a front page story about recent changes to the Commemorative Works Act and a picture of Chair Judy Feldman standing in front of the “Closed” sign at the Washington Monument. Senator Craig Thomas (R-WY) is truly a champion of the Mall.
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Post: Moore Writes ‘Bridging the Difference On Memorials And the Mall’
In an essay published in yesterday’s (Sunday, November 9th) Washington Post on the “Close to Home” page, local architect Arthur Cotton Moore offered a novel approach to future memorializing on the Mall (see below).
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Review: ‘Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition’
Please take a moment to read below Jonathan Yardley’s review of Lucy Barber’s new book, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition (University of California Press, just released.)
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National Park Service: Revised and New Security Plans for Mall Monuments
Suddenly after a lull, the National Park Service has come to life with revised and new security plans for the major monuments on the National Mall. All of these proposals […]
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National Park Service Proposes New Security Plans for Major Monuments
Suddenly after a lull, the National Park Service has come to life with revised and new security plans for the major monuments on the National Mall. All of these proposals need serious scrutiny.
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NCPC Cancels Meeting to Review the National Park Service’s Washington Monument Project
We have just received word that the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has CANCELLED the special August 15th meeting to review the National Park Service’s Washington Monument project.
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Statement by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton on ACHP WWII Memorial Report
Save the Mall Statement by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton on ACHP Report
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