May/June
2000
Belle
Epoxy
Has the new Las Vegas raised the American love affair
with the fake to the level of high art?
By Wayne Curtis
Rooted in Suburbia
How generations of a Hamden, Conn., family turned
a postwar neighborhood into a satisfying place to
live.
By Rob Gurwitt
Churchyard Elegies
Eudora Welty's photos of Mississippi's rural
cemeteries capture the simplicity and splendor of
funerary art.
By Elizabeth Spencer
Diary of a Farmwife
The discovery of journals in New York farmhouse encourages
a writer to reconstruct the diarist's life.
By Laura Furman
Harvard's Fancy New
Hat
Memorial Hall, bare on top since 1956, finally gets
its tower back, crowning the restoration of a Victorian
masterpiece.
By Robert Campbell
Preservation News
Transitions • New Jersey
has a positive effect on Ellis Island •
Pittsburgh tends to revive its downtown through intensive
demolition • The Ikes,
a new generation of retirees, head for the cities
• Yikes! A floating row house in Washington,
D.C. • Utah's historic
Fort Douglas will re-enlarge as a college campus and
an Olympic village • Connecticut architect
Richard Bergmann cultivates support for modern houses
• Who's News
Place: Brooklyn Bridge.
To the poet gazing upon them, the Brooklyn Bridge
and the East River beneath it assume a multitude of
moods.
By Paul Mariani
Traveler
Eatonville, Fla., reconstructs the small-town heritage
that inspired the rich prose of writer Zora Neale
Hurston.
By Sudip Bose
The Back Page:
A rescued fragment of downtown Denver's history still
thrives as a preservation pioneer.
By Dwight Young
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