Fans of Marilyn Monroe have won a battle to preserve her mark on Los Angeles and are a step closer to seeing a towering statue of the actress remain in Palm Springs. The Los Angeles home where Monroe briefly lived and died has been declared a historic cultural monument, while a Palm Springs planning commission […]
DIAMOND, Mo. — One local national park is ensuring a piece of agricultural history is recognized through a special event. “George Washington Carver National Monument” is highlighting what originally was called the Jesup Agricultural Wagon. Park employees hosted a display today to the public. According to the National Parks Service, it was named after Morris […]
The National Monument to Freedom serves as the focus of a private dedication for the Equal Justice Initiative on June 19, 2024. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector) People who visit the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery will not only face the brutality of slavery and the hardship it caused. They will also encounter the grace and […]
Rainbow flags lining the Stonewall National Monument in New York City to celebrate Pride month were taken down and destroyed this week, police said, marking the second year in a row that the flags have been vandalized during the annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community throughout June. Authorities received a report early Friday about the […]
Over 150 rainbow flags lining New York City’s Stonewall National Monument for LGBTQ Pride Month were vandalized this week — for the second year in a row — police said Friday. Someone broke 160 flags both inside and outside the monument, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, between Thursday evening and Friday morning, a spokesperson for […]
(MONUMENT, Colo.) — The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) said it will not be starting any new ignitions on Friday, June 14 as part of an ongoing prescribed burn west of Monument, because conditions are not favorable. The Monument Creek Fire Center prescribed burns began on Wednesday, and smoke has been visible in the Pikes Peak […]
An Iowa woman hiking at Colorado National Monument died after collapsing and losing consciousness two miles into a trail, according to the National Park Service. Marsha Cook, 54, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was pronounced dead on Monday, the park service said in a news release, after collapsing on the Lower Monument Canyon Trail. The Colorado […]
The push to make Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District a national monument continues more than a century after a white mob destroyed the affluent Black neighborhood in the nation’s largest race massacre. The district, also known as Black Wall Street, was the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. On May 31 and June 1 that […]
On Memorial Day, Brookline residents honored U.S. military personnel by recognizing a new historic monument in their neighborhood. The Brookline War Memorial Cannon was declared a historic monument ahead of the neighborhood’s Memorial Day Parade. The declaration featured a playing of taps by a local Boy Scout and a 21-gun salute. City officials said they […]
What’s Your KCQ is a collaboration between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library series that answers your questions the history, people, places and culture that make Kansas City unique. Have a suggestion for a future story? Share it with us here, or email our journalists at KCQ@kcstar.com. On a recent visit to Penn […]
HONESDALE, WAYNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Elsewhere on this Armed Forces Day, many came out to honor women veterans at a new monument dedication. It took a New England company two years to create the dedication monument outside the courthouse in Honesdale. The monument features drawings of women in the military roles they’ve served spanning generations. […]
More than 100 years after the nation’s deadliest race massacre, the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill to grant national monument status to Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as “Black Wall Street.” In 1921, Black Wall Street was burned to ashes by white mobs who attacked the then-thriving and predominantly Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The […]