Word: restorationism
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The restoration is sensitive and, for the most part, scrupulous. Always there are quibbles: Why have the hoteliers covered the tile walls of a main hallway with cheesy green felt? In the 65-ft.-high barrel-vaulted Grand Hall, however, the strict preservationists were indulged. The gilt is real gold...
Last week, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis signed a bill passed by the state legislature naming the Huron Ave. Bridge after Russell. The former mayor is credited with pushing for the restoration of the bridge, which now connects a section of Russell's West Cambridge neighborhood with the rest of the...
Today workboats leave at all hours from the Battery, hauling hard-hatted construction crews and materials for the restoration. The Great Hall is a maze of scaffolding. Fans hum everywhere, drying out plaster. Bare bulbs hang down all over. Occasionally there is the frantic sound of beating wings, a gull...
Egyptian authorities are only too aware of the perils facing their greatest treasures, but they have been hamstrung by lack of resources. As recently as four years ago, the Egyptian Antiquities Organization's annual budget was a mere $2 million. But since the EAO's energetic director, Ahmed Qadry, a...
The official Church News of Salt Lake City published the letter last month. It was written by Martin Harris, a farmer who lived near Palmyra, N.Y. Harris was Smith's first convert outside the prophet's family. Addressed to a Canandaigua, N.Y., newspaper editor who later joined the sect, the...