Shakespeare in the Park
“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.” —“Antony and Cleopatra:” Act V, Scene II Did the author of those lines, William Shakespeare (1564–1616), […]
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George Washington’s First Inauguration
“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the […]
Central Park’s Seventh Regiment Memorial
The Veteran Corps “commemorated the memory of their comrades who fell in the Civil War with appropriate exercises… The monument was almost hidden from sight by wreaths and flowers, as […]
A Free Press and Horace Greeley
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” —Horace Greeley (1811–1872) Today is World Press Freedom Day. To highlight […]
A Pilgrim’s Progress
“Mr. J. Q. A. Ward’s ideal figure of a New-Englander for Central Park.” —from the October 12, 1884 edition of the New York Times As is the case with many […]
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