MORGANTOWN - There are battlefields, and then there's Belle Boyd, teenage temptress and Confederate spy. The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting Boyd is the sexier Civil War story and that tourists will want to visit the Martinsburg home of the notorious "siren of the South" who used her feminine charms to spy on Union soldiers for the Confederacy.
The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie,
FREDERICK, Md. - Standing behind the old brick Worthington House, visitors can look down the gently sloping hillside and picture the Civil War battle that likely saved the nation's capital from capture. Much of the farmland where Union soldiers fought that hot summer day in 1864 to delay a Confederate attack on Washington has been preserved as Monocacy National Battlefield. But the view from the Worthington farm, where the fighting began, appears fated to become less historic.
UTAH BEACH, France - Just like that history-changing morning so long ago, the tide is out and a stiff wind scours the sand, but W.T. Hardwick can't quite reconcile the serene beach before him with the smoke and chaos of his memories. He's dreamt often about this place, about the artillery raining down and men falling and his capture. Now, hand-in-hand with his daughter and granddaughter, he looks out beyond the breaking waves and sees an empty horizon where thousands of ships once clogged the English Channel.
In the exhibit "HomeFrontLine: Reflections on Ten Years of War Since 9/11," which opened earlier this month at Silver Eye Center for Photography, 11 photographers seek to bring the horrors of the frontline home. This isn't typical war photography, but addresses the toll it has taken on our collective psyche. There's war photography, then there is (this type of) war photography," says Leo Hsu, a writer and independent curator from Shadyside who, along with Ellen Fleurov, executive director of Silver Eye, organized this exhibit. "This is photography that's about, more broadly, the consequences of war.
Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth W. Westbrook had just handed over his retirement papers when he was told about the stop-loss order that would keep him in the Army for another combat tour, this time in Afghanistan. After 22 years in the Army and two tours in Iraq, he accepted his fate as a "no-go? with the same good humor he displayed during any number of unexpected turns, his wife said.
VICKSBURG, Miss. - Mississippi Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker have proposed expanding the Vicksburg National Military Park to add the battles of Champion Hill, Port Gibson and Raymond. A bill by the two Republicans would allow the National Park Service to acquire about 10,000 acres to preserve the Civil War battlefields.
The Tri-City area is among the biggest beneficiaries of the latest round of grants doled out by the state to promote transportation and tourism. The Commonwealth Transportation Board announced it has awarded a grant of $1 million to the Civil War Preservation Trust to buy battlefields and build access trails in Dinwiddie County. In addition, the CTB awarded Chesterfield County $175,000 to fund construction of the Virginia State University section of the Appomattox Riverside Trail.
He is one of Buffalo's most famous native sons. Raised in a poor Irish family in Buffalo's rough-and-tumble First Ward, he led men into battle and won the nation's highest honors for valor. He advised presidents, met with world leaders and planted the seed for what we know today as the Central Intelligence Agency. A building in Buffalo, now abandoned, bears his name and another, gleaming over Niagara Square, someday might also be known by his name.
RICHMOND, Va. - A Southwestern desert peak where cavalry clashed nearly 150 years ago has joined an annual list of the nation's most endangered Civil War battlefields because state budget cuts are set to close the park that marks the site. A West Virginia site is also on the list, mostly because of a wind farm being built nearby.
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