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...suddenly, everything is altered. The old house has been closed and will be emptied; it will be restored and reopened, but no longer as the repository of sacred artifacts. A spanking-new museum has gone up near by, and it will be more than merely a shrine to tragic heroes and lost causes. There will be many new exhibits, including ones depicting the position of blacks under slavery. They will be designed for a rising generation that is less interested in venerating the past than in moving onward. Yet, inevitably, what will now exist is a gleaming new shell...
...landmarks and vistas hopelessly cramps the cartographer's art (see map). Planning a family vacation is a matter of infinite negotiations as the head of the household attempts to accommodate everyone's tastes and whims. Naturally he whims some, loses some, in an effort to schedule the Cooperstown baseball shrine, an art gallery, an antique market and a genuine prehistoric dinosaur park and rock garden all in one fractious, febrile day. Still, it might be instructive to conjure Dickens, Trollope and Twain on the road in '76, launched in their camper in the northeastern corner...
...steeply-tiered upper deck, which rises at least to the level of a Triple-A pop-up, puts one far above the action, an appropriate distance in a shrine, perhaps, but one that allows even Yankee partisans to concentrate exclusively on the fights in the stands and not on their team batting below. But one can't help feeling that they would have watched Ruth or Dimaggio or Mantle take their swings in the circumstances...
...Annual 1812 Overture blast should attract throngs into a fully-bloomed Lowell House Courtyard this Sunday afternoon. Lowell tower the only shrine in the country housing real Russian bells, is reportedly one of the prime reasons that the tradition began there almost three decades ago. The group which organizes the event anticipates that this year no one who wants to play or listen will be turned away--they are stocked with parts for up to 20 ambitious bass drummers and scores of flutists...
...carefully rehearsed plan in preparing for the floods. A well-staffed flood control center, resembling a military command post, was set up to begin coordinating an evacuation system and dike patrol. National Guardsmen and personnel from the local Air Force base were pressed into service to help. A Shrine Circus, scheduled to play the municipal auditorium last week, was canceled and the hall used for storage...