Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conversion of the five-acre lot, on the corner of Memorial Dr. and John F. Kennedy St., will begin next month and is expected to be completed next fall. The project, Massachusetts's official monument to its famous native son, will cost the state an estimated $5.2 million...
...monument dedicated to a construction worker who was killed in an accident during the seven-year-long construction of the Harvard Square T stop was unveiled Sunday in a ceremony near Johnson Gate...
Officials at Perini Corporation said they waited to dedicate the monument until the Red Line was completed, so the monument could be placed at the finished opening of the tunnel he worked...
...sometimes teary-eyed crowd of roughly 1000 watched as the monument--two black marble triangles bearing the fifty names, maps of Vietnam, and the reminder, "we can't forget"--was unveiled in Somerville's Union Square by members of the Somerville/Cambridge Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee...
...This is like giving birth to a baby," said Joseph Leccese, a truck driver and designer of the monument. Leccese, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, said he started the design a year and a half ago and wanted something simple and elegant with "clean lines...