[CPEO-IRF] Fort Monroe National Park?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Public must speak out to create a Fort Monroe National Park

Opinion by Steven T. Corneliussen
Daily Press (VA)
November 28, 2007

If Virginia somehow came to own Monticello and Mount Vernon, no one 
would dream of donating them to Charlottesville and Alexandria for 
narrowly envisioned exploitation. Yet in 2005, politicians, unhindered 
by the media, began planning just that fate for a comparable national 
treasure on the Chesapeake Bay: Fort Monroe.

That this Army post ranks with the estates of presidents was made clear 
by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Robert Nieweg in the 
Norfolk PBS station's documentary (available online at www.whro.org) 
about the Hampton Roads area's passionate debate over Fort Monroe's future.

In 2011, the Army will leave the post, which occupies all 570 
water-surrounded acres of Old Point Comfort, just east of the Hampton 
Roads Bridge-Tunnel's Hampton end. The site offers spectacular views 
across the harbor and over the bay. But more important, it is a window 
into four centuries of American history, including events at both the 
dawn and the demise of slavery.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-ed_park_1128nov28,0,233453.story


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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