I refuse to post these to the front page of Wikipedia any more. But I will post them here. The article I wrote or assisted with is in bold.

Did You Know ... that West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., was riverbed until created using dredged materials between 1882 and 1890?


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I refuse to post these to the front page of Wikipedia any more. But I will post them here. The article I wrote or assisted with is in bold.

Did You Know ... that James Leal Greenleaf, the landscape architect who designed the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial, was a distant relative of James Greenleaf -- the infamous Washington, D.C., land ( Read more... )

The Eisenhower Memorial Commission, refusing to buckle to any pressure whatsoever from Congress or the Eisenhower family, has approved the Eisenhower memorial in essentially the same form that has drawn intense criticism for the past three yearsMinor changes were made by Frank Gehry before the vote. These include restoring the bas-reliefs behind ( Read more... )

These are all real gardens. I know they look fake, but that is because these are glass slides created in 1918, and are hand-tinted. But they are real all right...

The designer was James Leal Greenleaf, a civil engineer turned landscape architect. Greenleaf was one of the "Boston Greenleafs" -- a famous family of former French Huugenots who ( Read more... )