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Blue Ridge Parkway
Moses Cone
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The son of an immigrant, Moses Cone worked his way up from a traveling peddler to one of the nation's leading industrialists.
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Since the early 2000s, ecologists who monitor rocky intertidal ecosystems each year have noted declines in a key intertidal seaweed commonly called rockweed. Rockweed is considered a foundational species, meaning that its presence is so important that without it the entire ecosystem would change radically. At Channel Islands National Park, marine ecologists are working with local scientists to understand the best methods to restore rockweed.
César E. Chávez National Monument
A New Era of Farmworker Organizing
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This article explores changes in farm work and farmworker organizing that took place in the 1960s. The end of the Bracero Program, a strike wave, and the emergence of the Black Freedom Movement, all played a role in expanding the opportunities for farmworker organizing. So too did the emergence of a new organization, the National Farm Workers Association.
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This page is part of a six-part series exploring DC current events through Fugazi concerts. Each article shares audio clips of banter in between songs at Fugazi shows, where band members and local activists weigh in on current events in DC & national politics. In this article, they discuss surveillance after 9/11, and hostile architecture.
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This page is part of a six-part series exploring DC current events through Fugazi concerts. Each article shares audio clips of banter in between songs at Fugazi shows, where band members and local activists weigh in on current events in DC & national politics. In this article, they discuss incarceration and gambling.
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This page is part of a six-part series exploring DC current events through Fugazi concerts. Each article shares audio clips of banter in between songs at Fugazi shows, where band members and local activists weigh in on current events in DC & national politics. In this article, they discuss homelessness and segregation in DC.
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This page is part of a six-part series exploring DC current events through Fugazi concerts. Each article shares audio clips of banter in between songs at Fugazi shows, where band members and local activists weigh in on current events in DC & national politics. In this article, they discuss DC finances, welfare policy, and the fort reno park concert series.
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This page is part of a six-part series exploring DC current events through Fugazi concerts. Each article shares audio clips of banter in between songs at Fugazi shows, where band members and local activists weigh in on current events in DC & national politics. In this article, they discuss the anti-nuclear movement, and military equipment in the DC police force.
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This page is part of a six-part series exploring DC current events through Fugazi concerts. Each article shares audio clips of banter in between songs at Fugazi shows, where band members and local activists weigh in on current events in DC & national politics. This article focuses on the punk community's perspectives on the United States' involvement in wars in the middle east.
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This is a six-part series exploring DC current events through Fugazi concerts. Each article shares audio clips of banter in between songs at Fugazi shows, where band members and local activists weigh in on current events in DC & national politics.
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Fort Necessity National Battlefield park staff aimed to find out if Appalachian cottontail inhabited the park, so they collaborated with the Inventory and Monitoring Division to survey for their scat.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Deer Creek Beach
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Nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains, Deer Creek Beach covers 1,241 acres and boasts over two miles of pristine coastline. This newly-acquired federal land offers scenic views, diverse uplands, riparian areas, and coastal bluffs. As part of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, it’s perfect for wildlife and nature lovers. Note: There are no amenities on-site, so plan for a rugged experience.
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New technology makes it possible to record hundreds of thousands of songs in a short time. That could make protecting wild birds and other at-risk animals easier.
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In its latest of many lives, the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey is often at sea, unavailable to park visitors. We recreated it virtually so more people than ever can explore its decks—and its stories.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
How “Hot” Radioactive Fossils Tested One Park’s Safety Tech
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Some fossil bones emit huge amounts of radon, a cancer-causing gas, so staying safe when storing or studying them is a real challenge. Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument found ways to overcome the problem through upgraded safety technology, but its story is a cautionary one.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
1979 Rally for the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
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At the end of the National March for Lesbian and Gay Rights, participants gathered near the base of the Washington Monument to listen to speakers proudly claim their queerness and paint a vision of a more inclusive future. One of these speakers was Charles Law, a Black gay activist based in Houston. He argued that the marchers must not fight for assimilate but integration so that all gay and lesbian people may one day enjoy the full benefits of their civil rights.
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Susan Small was a seventeen-year-old wife and mother when she escaped to freedom with her infant son Philip aboard the Confederate steamer the "Planter."
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John Small freed himself, his wife Susan, and their infant son Phillip during a dangerous escape aboard the Confederate steamer, Planter. As the ship’s engineer, John was instrumental in the success of the mission in which he and pilot Robert Smalls brought a total of sixteen men, women and children out of slavery and into freedom.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Sons of Guam Pearl Harbor Memorial
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The Sons of Guam Pearl Harbor Memorial honors the twelve CHamoru men killed aboard the USS Arizona, USS West Virginia, USS Nevada, and the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (1860-1894) was a son of Martha Bulloch and Theodore Roosevelt Sr, the only brother of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was the father of Eleanor Roosevelt, and godfather of Franklin D. Roosevelt.