was established on this date in 1908.
Natural Bridges protects some of the finest examples of ancient stone architecture in the southwest. Located on a tree-covered mesa cut by deep sandstone canyons, three natural bridges formed where meandering streams eroded the canyon walls. The bridges are named Kachina, Owachomo and Sipapu.
That’s Sipapu in the photo.
Bobby Vinton is 70 today. Here’s hoping his roses are still red, my love.
Oh, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 58.
And, Peter Billingsley — you know, the kid who wants a BB-gun for Christmas so he can shoot his eye out — he’s 33.
22,846 visits to newmexiken.com in the first half of April.
DePaul men’s basketball coach Dave Leitao agreed yesterday to a contract to become the head coach at the University of Virginia, sources said. The Cavaliers are expected to introduce Leitao, who will become their first African American head coach in any sport at the school, at a news conference in Charlottesville early next week.
Even when the historical record is unambiguous, the museum sometimes improvises. John Wilkes Booth famously declared “sic semper tyrannis” (Latin for “thus always to tyrants”) after assassinating Lincoln. That sounded too arcane for modern ears. So in one of the multimedia presentations, the script writers have Booth growling instead: “Vengeance shall be mine.”
The goal is to make Lincoln’s story accessible so both adults and children “feel the fascination of history down in their gut,” Rogers explained.
Maybe they could even go Deadwood style and have Lincoln call Douglas a “c***sucker.”
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum opens today with a silicone Lincoln posing in the rotunda and pundit Tim Russert introducing mock TV attack ads from the campaign of 1860.
In the Union Theater, an abolitionist roars “Lincoln was no friend of the black man” as hologram cannons boom to signal the start of the Civil War. Strobe lights flash; the plush seats jerk and rumble like a ride at Universal Studios. When Atlanta burns, the air feels hot.
This is history, Hollywood style: A $90-million look at Honest Abe’s life and times — with special effects created by Stan Winston Studios, the wizards behind Jurassic Park and Terminator 3.
Some call it the model of a 21st century museum. Others call it schlock.
From an article in the Los Angeles Times.
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