March/April
2001
A City
in Transit
Old neighborhoods prosper again along Chicago's enduring
Ravenswood El.
By
Alan Ehrenhalt
A Burnt Offering
Arson revealed the truth of an 1812 Latrobe
house. Why its rescuers want to keep it a ruin
By Allen Freeman
Road Warrior
Life makes a little more
sense in a '54 Ford pickup.
By James Conaway
Downtownrevival@seattle.com
Software billionaires and
Internet startups are changing the look of the city's
historic buildings and neighborhoods.
By Leslie Allen
Visions of Green
The natural look of Vermont's
first national park was achieved through human meddling.
By John Fleischman
Writing on the Wall
The faded signs of decades-old
advertisements hover high above the streets of Manhattan.
By Linda Cooper Bowen
Preservation News
Transitions • A Seattle
landmark takes a tumble • Even if the
Chicago Cubs never win, Wrigley Field won't change—will
it? • Yikes! A Newark,
N.J., arts center's not-too-subtle message
• Overhauled near the Capitol, the U.S. Botanic
Garden prepares to reopen • Shuster
ends his House transportation reign, for better or
worse • Rival visions for the languishing
liner United States • Conserving
California's Mission San Juan Capistrano is no
quick fix • Sense of Cyberplace: Time
travel • Who's News
Traveler: Crumbling, plain, hard to find: Down House
was just the place Darwin needed to contemplate life's
mysteries.
By Anne Matthews
Place: In a New Jersey town, immigrants come and
go, but water remains a constant, vital presence.
By Alan Cheuse
Books: Tuning our senses of place and therefore
of history; and finding America in bowling alleys,
diners, and trailer parks
Reviews by Maurice Isserman
and Richard E. Nicholls
Short review by Allen Freeman
Interiors: Myriad mouse cages and doorknobs, Victoria
in Yoruba wood, and junky lounge lizards; plus bye-bye
to Szell's shell
By M.G. Lord
The Back Page: Lament for a Polynesian paradise
lost (with apologies to Ogden Nash)
By Dwight Young
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