by Susan | Nov 13, 2020 | Monuments
As the story goes, in 1883 a young woman working at the Eagle and Phenix textile mill got her skirt caught in a piece of machinery. It tore the lining of her skirt and her life savings, which she had sewn into the lining for safety, tumbled out onto the factory floor....
by Susan | Oct 26, 2020 | Monuments
The Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park, completed in 2003 in what was wasteland along the Ohio River just east of downtown, is an award-winning display of sculpture and flora representing five continents and also featuring a riverside bike trail and...
by Susan | Oct 12, 2020 | Monuments
The Bernalillo Courthouse has a major kinetic sculpture by artist Evelyn Rosenberg entitled “The Scale of Justice”. Installed in 2003, this computer-controlled sculpture transfers water from side to side every six minutes. At the base are inscriptions...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2020 | Monuments
In 1998 a Whitwell Middle School History class discussing World War II learned that six million Jews were slaughtered in the Nazi camps. A student asked how big six million is; another student read that people from Norway wore paperclips as a symbol of resistance...
by Susan | Sep 21, 2020 | Monuments
On September 21, 1976, on Sheridan Circle, a car driven by Orlando Letelier, an outspoken opponent of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, exploded The explosion killed Letelier and his passenger and colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt. It was caused by a remote...
