Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
$6 million allotted for fixing up now-closed city property Baltimore County will use $6 million in local and state funds to begin the first phase of improvements to Robert E. Lee Park in the Woodbrook area.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Born poor in Maine in 1840, Pingree fought in many brutal battles in the Civil War and was captured and held at Andersonville, the notorious Georgia prison where thousands of Union soldiers died of starvation and neglect. He escaped to fight more battles and was at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia in 1865 when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Born poor in Maine in 1840, Pingree fought in many brutal battles in the Civil War and was captured and held at Andersonville, the notorious Georgia prison where thousands of Union soldiers died of starvation and neglect. He escaped to fight more battles and was at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia in 1865 when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered.
Ecology of Absence (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... Garage, designed by Klipstein & Rathmann and completed in 1924. The cleared site for the Robert E. Lee Hotel (now the Railton) is just diagonally down to the left of the large parking garage. (A larger cleared site is on the block east, or up from this perspective.) Beside Union Station, the 18th Street Garage and a few wholesale buildings, most of the buildings in this image are two...
Ecology of Absence (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... a nutshell and recommend reading Section 8 of the nomination. The 14-story Railton started as the Robert E. Lee Hotel, completed in 1928 and designed by Kansas City architect Alonzo H. Gentry. Originally, the Renaissance Revival hotel had 221 rooms. Nearby Union Station fueled a district of hotels along 18th Street -- there were ten operating between Market and Washington in 1928 -- of which...
Marry in Massachusetts (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... Assuming that the poll holds and Capuano is her sole competition from 11/9 to 1/19 (the latter is Robert E. Lee's birthday, so think famous generals in conflict), how will his candid and pugnacious style play against hers? Conventional punditry and op-ed experts have said that the three men headed to the primary have been hobbled in attacking Coakley. Even criticizing her total lack of legislative...
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Houston Hills Challenge of Champions basketball tournament will take place today at Robert E. Lee High School, featuring junior-high programs from Houston Hills, Wetumpka, Auburn and Bullock County.
