Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Charles Edward Park, Minister of the First Church (Unitarian) Boston will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning...
...Faneuil Hall is not as popular a place as this writer supposes, or as the guidebook would wish to make it. Cantabrigians, who find Tremont and Boylston Streets, or Copley Square, or Coolidge Corner, conveniently near to Harvard Square, rarely penetrate a lesser distance on the other side of Park Street, to the Old South Church, or the old State House, or to the remoter regions of Copp's Hill and the Paul Revere district, the heart of Revolutionary Boston. Many hurry along Tremont a tombstone is inscribed "P. Funel" for Peter Faneuil, founder of the Hall. And how many...
What has been accomplished in the United States by the development of National Parks, Monuments and Forests is well-known, and the idea is constantly spreading. The Director of the National Park Service has proposed the creation of several new reservations and constructive work in the parks already existing is going on steadily. The most recent step forward is the passage of a law in Vermont putting a protecting arm around certain wild flowers as the rest of the country is already protecting game. Vermont thus constitutes itself a sort of state wide sanctuary for the wild flowers which...
...Italy the Premier's new Park will come barely in time to preserve the European brown bear, which has disappeared almost entirely, even from the district over which it has been the presiding deity, the Swiss canton of Berne. The great European vulture, the lammergeier, which has come down through history with the accumulated guilt of centuries for the crime of killing Aeschylus by dropping on his head a tortoise, is also in danger of extinction...
...Alpine Park would fulfil its purpose if it served only to keep in the world such living kindred as are left of the "side-hill gauger," the "Gyoscutus", and the "four-toed boneless partridge of the Alps...