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...lockout was the immediate result of a dispute between the Park Service and the King family over a new visitor center being built on the Martin Luther King historic site -- a 23-acre parcel that encompasses the birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's tomb and the family-run King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. But in a broader sense, it was symbolic of the troubles that have beset the legacy of the slain civil rights leader in his hometown even as the U.S. prepares to celebrate his birthday next week...
...between the Park Service and the King family, which invited the federal agency to assist in administering everything except the Center in 1980. Since then, the site has become the Park Service's third most popular historic attraction (after the Statue of Liberty and Philadelphia's Independence Hall). The visitor center, which Coretta King originally supported, was proposed to alleviate a serious shortage of parking and toilet facilities before the onslaught of 1996 Olympic crowds. The Park Service began construction in November but, the King family claims, failed to include them in the final plans...
...what would eventually be an appointment with prophecy. In that year, Karol Wojtyla was a student -- and an actor of considerable promise -- at a secondary school in the grimy industrial town of Wadowice. As the school's prize orator, he was asked to deliver a speech welcoming a grand visitor, the princely Adam Sapieha, scion of a noble house and, more important, Archbishop of nearby Cracow. Sapieha was clearly impressed, so much so that he inquired after Wojtyla, asking what he hoped to do with his life. The answer: the pursuit of philology or an actor's life. "A pity...
...cards for the exhibit were written in the 1920s and '50s and are not useful for the lay visitor, Rossi-Wilcox said...
...Flowers are now located in two rooms in the center of visitor traffic flow for the Museum of Cultural and Natural History, which draws about 125,000 people each year...