July 8, 2004 -- Standing on the main deck of The Breeze, the new ferry from Rochester, NY to Toronto, feels like standing in a hotel lobby. There's the concierge desk, in front of you, and the brand-new staircases arcing up on both sides.
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In 1906, the United States Congress passed the Antiquities Act to help prevent the looting and destruction of tribal lands by greedy and careless people. That law is being invoked by an American president for nearly the 300th time for the creation of the Chuckwalla National Monument in the Coachella Valley of Southern California. The…
A former school that was built in west Texas for Mexican and Mexican American students during the era of "separate but equal" education has become the newest addition to the U.S. National Park System. Located in the desert town–turned–unlikely arts hub of Marfa (about 50 miles east of the Mexico border), the Blackwell School National…
The U.S. National Park System got its 433rd addition this week, when President Joe Biden established the Frances Perkins National Monument in Newcastle, Maine. Though not exactly a household name today, Perkins (1880–1965) was a pioneering figure in women's history and the labor rights movement. In 1933, she became the first woman to serve in…