‘Cover Stories’ Archives
July 2013 Alley Newspaper: JULY Jubilees
July Jubilees 53rd Somali Independence Day July 1 ”¢ pg 8 237th United States of America Independence Day July 4 Midtown Global Market Music Festival July 13 ”¢ pg 8 Midtown Phillips Festival at Stewart Park  July 20 ”¢ pg 4 Midtown Global Smoothie “Smackdown” July 20 ”¢ pg 8 Haitian Unity Night with Tonton Dezirab ”¢Â July 20 ”¢ pg 8 ASI MN Hot Shop Herring Glass Blowout  ”¢Â July 25 ”¢ pg 4 Midtown Greenway “Tour de Fat” July 27 ”¢ Pg 4
Washington Monument obelisk
July 4th 1848 and July 4th 2013 The Washington Monument cornerstone was set July 4th 1848. Construction of the marble obelisk was halted for lack of money for 25 years during the Civil War era and resumed 25 years later in 1876. It has 700,000 visitors a year but has been closed since 2011 earthquake damage.The Park Service will complete repairs and reopen it by spring of 2014. For the July 4th 2013 holiday the monument was adorned with special decorative lighting. “It”'s an icon in this country, so you don”'t want it just sort of sitting here with a big scaffolding around it for a year,” Jonathan Jarvis, National Park Service Director said. On July 4th when the Sun reached the altitude of the tip of the obelisk at exactly 8º 36”', the Sun, the Capitol Building and Jefferson Memorial aligned within a precision of less than 1 degree.
Allées of Energy
By Harvey Winje Sue Hunter Weir writes here about an “Allée Dream Coming True” ”“ the hope and reality of trees lining both sides of the road into Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery with each tree”'s canopy touching in the center and framing an arch over the path. This desire by cemetery planners decades ago may have been inspired by allées like Austrian artist Gustav Klimt”'s (1862-1918*) vision when he painted the tree-lined allée pictured here. (more…)
