May/June
1999
No Town
Detroit's love affair with the car looked fatal,
but now the threat to downtown comes from city hall.
By Roberta Brandes Gratz
Get Your Fun on Route 1
What Maine's tourist cabins lack in amenities
they make up for in nostalgia.
By Ann Beattie and James Stevenson
Two Libraries, Two Tales
- Paradise
Regained
Returning to his old haunt, a writer finds the New
York Public Library's reading room better than
ever.
By Thomas Mallon
- Paradise Lost
The reading room of the British Library is stripped,
its functions moved to an antiseptic new building.
By Max Page
Storms! Strifes! History!
For 62 summers, outdoor historical dramas have been
thrilling audiences with legends from long-ago America.
By James T. Yenckel
Engines of the Gilded Age
A temple of industrial technology, the Metropolitan
Waterworks building in Boston slowly slips into ruin.
By Cullen Murphy
Preservation News
Industrial relics endangered in Cleveland •
Cities are destroying their
neighborhoods, one house at a time • Michigan
tradesmen empower low-income homeowners to do it themselves
• A Sense of Cyberplace:
Remembering Marshall Hall • Time's
almost up for Arizona tree carvings • Chicago
artists fight to save their historic working and living
studios • Development encroaches upon
the Miami Circle, a downtown Tequesta Indian site
• Tiffany chapel's
back. Florida's got it • Who's
News
Place: At New York's Metropolitan Museum, there
are rooms that take you into the past and across the
world.
By Phyllis Rose
The Ideal City: If the Lawn at the University of
Virginia doesn't play the role Jefferson conceived,
is it one of our great spaces?
By Mark Edmundson
Traveler: How Monument Valley stirred the visions
of a filmmaker and a cartoonist.
By Dennis Drabelle
The Back Page: The letters of a 19th-century Floridian
depict a dwelling tempered to its environs.
By Dwight Young
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