NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Metro Parks and the Metro Historic Fee have finalized the most current Fort Negley Learn Strategy right after a yr of investigation, organizing and community engagement, the teams announced Thursday.
The vision of the plan is to develop an open-air museum of organic significance that speaks as a result of the cultural landscape to expose historical past from the Civil War to the civil rights period.
Group engagement and suggestions performed a crucial position in the advancement of the system. During a collection of five functions commencing in the slide of 2021, community customers were asked to take part in interactive activities that in the long run laid the groundwork for the layout procedure. Actions bundled an pro panel session, open up homes, options for reflection and several physical scale designs to aid feed-back. The specialist crew was obtainable to deliver pro assistance on most effective and ground breaking procedures for the treatment method of historic and cultural sites.
Much more than 175 members and extra than 1,175 reviews had been gained for the duration of these meetings.
Many stakeholder groups were also engaged periodically during the structure method to share understanding and to offer updates regarding the learn program. In excess of the study course of the entire master planning course of action, a lot more than 20 conferences were held with several groups.
“The master program represents a devoted effort and hard work by a multitude of assorted individuals and corporations. The general public enter, stakeholder discussions, and Metro Nashville’s perseverance to supporting an inclusive and extensive preparing approach have yielded what we believe that to be a approach for the successful and sustainable transformation of the Fort Negley web page,” Metro Parks Director Monique Horton Odom mentioned in a news release.
“The tips laid out in this grasp prepare stand for an opportunity to deliver the web-site its correct remedy to build a long lasting landscape of memory, hope and resilience for Nashville and for the nation. The new program establishes a long-expression eyesight for the preservation, interpretation and development of the park,” Richie Jones, spouse at HDLA Landscape Architecture, who served as the prime contractor for the grasp program, mentioned in a information release. “Our complete crew of planners, designers, historians and neighborhood advocates participated in crafting the ultimate item.”
Fort Negley Park is a 64-acre park in the heart of Nashville. Recognized as one particular of the nation’s most important historical sites, it is household to distinct natural and cultural assets and was designated a “Site of Memory” by the UNESCO Slave Route Project in 2019 and is shown in the Nationwide Register of Historic Areas.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so busy!” declares my dad as we pull into the car park of Housesteads, which sits along Hadrian’s Wall, one of the best-preserved Roman forts in Britain. He’s right: the car park is rammed and the entrance to the site is unusually crowded. Tourists with backpacks sit on picnic benches eating cake from the cafe, while a dad reads aloud the noticeboards to his small children.
This buzz is, in part, probably due to it being an exceptionally sunny day during the school holidays. But there’s another factor: Housesteads has a new, temporary art installation, part of a year-long series of events celebrating 1,900 years since building on Hadrian’s Wall began in AD122, under the instruction of the emperor Hadrian.
Designed by artist Morag Myerscough with help from the local community, the artwork – called The Future Belongs to What Was As Much As What Is – consists of a colourful, fortress-like structure made from scaffolding. At about 16 metres wide and 9 metres tall, it’s large enough to be seen from the B-road running parallel to the wall, and reimagines the northern gatehouse of this fort, built directly on top of its remains.
A trip to Housesteads was a family favourite throughout my childhood. Back then, mum and dad would pack my two brothers and me into the car – sometimes with a couple of other chaotic children in tow – and drive us out to one of the forts along the 73-mile wall, stretching from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway, once the north-west frontier of the Roman empire, in the hope of providing us with some entertainment.
While Housesteads is often cited as an example of the standard “playing card” plan of a Roman auxiliary fort, its rectangular shape served us with a different – and, in our eyes, far better – purpose. It acted as the perfect perimeter for playing hide and seek. Other forts worth visiting, where I’ve also collected memories to make me smile, include Birdoswald, Chesters and, just down the road, Vindolanda, home to the Vindolanda tablets, some of the oldest handwritten documents in Britain.
Today, my parents and I take the familiar half-mile path to Housesteads, following the natural dip in the land, before a steep ascent to the ticket desk and museum. Just to the south of the fort, near the path leading to its entrance, there are the remains of the vicus, the town where the soldiers’ families lived and worked.
Along the way, Myerscough’s structure bobs in and out of view. Her artwork is arresting, adding a welcome flamboyance to what is often a desolate, grey landscape. The construction also highlights – quite literally, as fluorescent paint coats the exterior – the Romans’ use of colour. For the buildings of ancient Rome were not finished as the gleaming white marble remains we see today, but were brightly painted.
Housesteads is exposed to the elements, so many of my childhood memories consist of being lashed by the wind and rain. Mum would often harness this dire weather as a way of getting us to consider the harsh conditions faced by the Roman army who built the wall from stone and turf, while likely living in leather tents. This bitter climate is evident, too, in the lifespan of Myerscough’s installation: the plan is for it to stay up until the end of October, but only if the weather allows it.
Inside the fort, the installation seems to have injected a garish energy that I’ve not encountered here before. Children play among the remains in the sunshine, tourists take photographs, and a National Trust volunteer carries out a guided tour. Among the site’s highlights are the latrines – some of the finest toilets in Roman Britain; the granary, where the still-visible stone pillars once supported a raised floor to help keep food dry; and the luxurious house of the commanding officer, complete with the remnants of a hypocaust – the Romans’ version of central heating.
Sycamore Gap, a famous landmark not far from Housesteads Fort. Photograph: Alamy
Hanging from Myerscough’s installation are flashy placards carrying mostly optimistic phrases – I’m drawn to “floodgates of love”, “family” and “everybody’s welcome” – many painted by communities living near the wall, including quotes from local poet Ellen Moran. From one of its two balconies I look across the sprawling wilderness: the installation reveals views possibly last seen by the soldiers on duty 1,600 years ago, when the fort was abandoned as the Roman empire began to crumble.
The scenery is bleak, but weirdly stunning: soothing swathes of woodland and dry-stone walls – many of them built using stones from Hadrian’s Wall – and the odd sheepfold among the fields. Those wanting to explore it more can also do an 8-mile loop from Housesteads down to Sycamore Gap, a striking tree sitting in a dramatic dip of land, and an attraction in its own right since its appearance in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. From here, the path goes via the prominent remains of Milecastle 39 (or Castle Nick), before looping around to give views across Crag Lough and Whin Sill, an imposing, volcanic formation of layered rock, with Hadrian’s Wall running along the top.
“I know it’s totally out of context, but it’s great isn’t it?” says volunteer guide Steve, as we stand beside the north gate after his tour, watching excited children run in and out of the installation. “Younger generations can go in there and have a look at things, muck about. I think the only sad thing from their point of view is that they’re not allowed to climb the scaffolding and go up to the top!”
Our day ends with an obligatory visit to the cafe near the entrance, where we join those on the picnic benches outside, chatting about what we’ve just seen. Indeed, Myerscough’s artwork has ignited the imaginations of visitors to this fort. While the installation is wonderfully joyous – much needed in these times and in this landscape – it’s also practical, giving a real sense of the scale of the original gatehouse. It’s a colourful reminder of this brutally exposed edge to Rome’s once-vast empire.
Five more events celebrating Hadrian’s Wall’s 1,900th anniversary
Milecastle 39 with Crag Lough Highshield Crags and Hotbanks Crags beyond. Photograph: Clearview/Alamy
Catapulta! at Birdoswald Roman Fort Another re-enactment, this time of Roman soldiers competing in an artillery competition, with the crowd encouraged to cheer on their favourite. 27-29 August
W’all Love the Wall, Tyne Theatre & Opera House A new comedy sketch show by north-east-based writers’ group Sun of a Gun, in partnership with Tyne Theatre Productions, promising “masonry-related humour” inspired by Hadrian’s Wall. 4 September, eventim.co.uk
Open Day at Ravenglass Roman Fort and Bath House An open day at this Roman fort in west Cumbria, which has a well-preserved bathhouse, with family-friendly activities, dressing up and Roman board games. 24 September
For decades, women artists have been fighting to get their work on museum gallery walls. Recently, the battle is being won: Various exhibitions across the country feature female’s work. Once visitors notice the change, they see that art can be different when women wield the paintbrushes. Sometimes. And sometimes not.
Adam Reich/Courtesy of the Artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
Nothing much different there, except all the blue, and the beauty of the model and the painting. It’s called Queen Jane Approximately — like the Bob Dylan song.
Gangloff doesn’t seem to be painting blue-as-in-sad. This blue is meditative, relaxed, reflective. The woman, former model and fashion designer Jane Mayle, is a friend — as are all of Gangloff’s models, says Andrea Karnes, curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth exhibition Women Painting Women.
The acrobatic Iraqi women below may be friends (although how long would you shoulder responsibility for a friend this way?). To me, they look more like relatives, maybe sisters, with their beautiful black hair, brows and red, red lips.
Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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Kahraman paints this woman often. Contorted and multiplied as she is here, I see incredible strength. Those powerful legs, the steady gaze and humor — I laughed at first glimpse. But curator Karnes says it’s a salute to “countless displaced women, past and present.” Women who have suffered “disfigurement, violence, sexual abuse,” standing on the shoulders of their predecessors.
So, how do women paint women? It’s less about seeing them differently from men, than showing them different. For centuries, artists’ male gaze saw women as objects of desire, idealized and voluptuous, with luscious white skin and dimpled knees. Women artists in this exhibition, like Alice Neel and Emma Amos and others, show women as differently beautiful: pregnant, overweight, sometimes despondent. As we are, wrapped in our truths.
Arpita Singh’s mother has seen and lived through so much conflict: the bloody partition of India and Pakistan, with its religious divides, political disputes, loss and deaths. At the top of the canvas, like a frame, Arpita has written the words, “Between what I say and what I keep silent.” The mother clutches her hands. Her sari is white — in India, the color of mourning. Near her, a row of dead bodies. Surrounded by chaos, the mother is … what? Silent? Steady? Firm? Stalwart? What do you see in her face, reader?
Jeff McLane/Courtesy The Estate of Luchita Hurtado and Hauser & Wirth
Like so many of the 46 female artists in this exhibition, Luchita Hurtado had no money to hire models. But she had the wealth of her talent, and the will to make art. Again, like so many of these artists, Hurtado was driven to make art. She had responsibilities: a husband and children. At night, after dinner, when they’d gone to bed, curator Andrea Karnes says, “she would go into the closet and paint.” Driven, “even when there was no market for her work.” Hurtado said for her painting was a constant — “a need, like brushing your teeth.” And when she lacked money for models, her own body became her favorite model. Hurtado didn’t idealize herself. But she viewed herself from a perspective no man (or woman, for that matter) could share. Looking down toward the geometric Navajo rug, she painted her breast, her belly, hand, leg with clarity and tremendous confidence.
Do women paint themselves and one another differently? “Women artists look beyond the ideal beauty — the archetype” Andrea Karnes declares. In doing so, they create a portfolio of new archetypes.
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Volunteers and avian professionals scan a coaching space at Fort Hood, Texas, through the post’s annual Christmas Fowl Count outreach celebration, Dec. 15, 2021. (Photo Credit: Christine Luciano, Fort Hood DPW Environmental)
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FORT HOOD, Texas – The Countrywide Armed service Fish and Wildlife Affiliation recognized the Fort Hood Purely natural Sources Management Branch as award winners for the All-natural Assets Conservation Management Model Plan category at a ceremony in Spokane, Washington, March 16, How News Today.
“In presenting this award, I want to spotlight some of the many conservation achievements of the Fort Hood pure assets crew … or I could stand listed here half an hour likely over the amazing items that they do,” stated Robby Smith, director-at-large, NMFWA.
NMFWA communicates, informs and coordinates with pros across the Section of Defense to protect all-natural methods even though supporting the military mission via sustainable resource conservation. A number of courses Smith regarded incorporated monarch tagging, built-in pest management, wildland fire administration, Xmas chicken depend, birds of conservation and mission delicate species, How News Today.
“They have the best density of monarch detections which takes place during drop migration, when monarchs return to wintering grounds and funnel via the Texas central flyway,” Smith explained. “To acquire a deeper knowledge of how monarchs use Fort Hood’s normal methods, the group set up the monarch tagging system in 2017. Due to the fact inception, extra than 9,500 monarchs have been captured, tagged and unveiled.”
By way of the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors’ Monarch Pledge, Fort Hood Garrison Commander, Col. Chad R. Foster, will further more illustrate the installation’s motivation to protecting and restoring habitat for monarchs with a proclamation signing at the close of the month.
“Experiencing the monarch tagging energy firsthand with my son final slide, I definitely respect the hard work, perseverance and exemplary efforts of our biologists, environmental safety professionals, volunteers and community partners,” Foster reported. “The future monarch pledge is a testament to Fort Hood’s motivation to doing great points, educating the local community and promoting conservation and stewardship.”
During the awards ceremony, Smith also shared how Fort Hood, for the duration of the previous two fiscal many years, saved over 40 beehives from becoming ruined by operating with community beekeepers who collected the hives at no value to the govt eliminated 2,280 wild pigs that induced horrific injury to coaching lands and donated thousands of kilos of meat and continued the wildland hearth administration of the largest contiguously owned normal landscape in its nearby region at in excess of 218,000 acres, How News Today.
“We have an great team in this article at purely natural sources, and I am happy of each and just about every one of our crew customers. We all know what our work is at Fort Hood, and we all have a honest dedication to making the Excellent Location improved,” claimed Tim Buchanan, main of Natural and Cultural Assets Management Department. “Of training course, we could not complete our mission without the essential partnerships that preserve our daily contributions effective and supplies shared benefits to Fort Hood and the community encompassing communities.”
Caleb Thyer, a senior firefighter and forestry technician with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Provider, uses a drip torch to ignite a prescribed burn off at a teaching area at Fort Hood, Texas. Prescribed burns are an necessary ingredient of wildland hearth management. (Picture Credit: Christine Luciano, Fort Hood DPW Environmental)
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Dr. Amber Dankert, supervisor of Fort Hood’s wildlife management, acknowledges teamwork and partnerships with interior and exterior stakeholders have ensured successes with mission readiness and sustainment, How News Today.
“Our partnership with the Appropriate Lands Basis assists Fort Hood generate conservation easements and a lasting defense of farmlands that border the set up,” Dankert stated. “The positive aspects are a earn for armed service coaching and preserving farmlands that give alternatives like the FEAT farm.”
The FEAT farm, acknowledged as the Farmer Education and learning And Schooling farm, is 72 acres acquired by the Suitable Lands Basis as section of Fort Hood’s Army Compatible Use Buffer plan and presents energetic obligation, veterans and military relatives users agricultural teaching.
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On behalf of the Fort Hood Natural Resources Management Branch, Tim Buchanan, Scott Summers, Chris Plimpton and Brad Load acknowledge the Pure Assets Conservation Administration Model Plan Award at a ceremony in Spokane, Washington, March 16. (Photo Credit rating: Courtesy photograph)
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“Each human being is a subject matter subject skilled in his or her have discipline, but because our do the job needs an intense work in the industry that we can’t obtain all the info by ourselves,” Sanders stated. “Whether it is performing deer surveys or netting of butterflies, we all have to guidance each other’s applications with labor. We all have to help each and every other and we do a really superior task of balancing that hard work across the branch.”
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“These are several excellent matters that you are accomplishing for your product program,” Smith stated. “It is awesome and congratulations.”
Larger ALEXANDRIA, VA — Two stages of up to date rooms and surrounding landscaping will make you experience at dwelling at this Fort Hunt house on Redfin.
Situated in Hollin Corridor Village in the heart of Fort Hunt, this four-bed room house comes with stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops in the kitchen. Three of the bedrooms can be uncovered on the most important amount, which also sales opportunities out to a deck. The decrease level characteristics renovations, such as a toilet, bed room and reward area. People can appreciate the landscaped lawn outside with fencing and a photo voltaic-run gate.
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Deal with: 7915 Bainbridge Rd, Alexandria, VA
Value: $799000
Square toes: 1457
Bedrooms: 4
Bogs: 2
Listing Description: Welcome to 7915 Bainbridge Highway in wonderful Hollin Hall Village. Located in the coronary heart of the Fort Hunt Local community, this 2 stage, 4-bed room, 2 total bath dwelling has been wonderfully current! Delight in an open strategy kitchen area with attractive white and navy cabinetry, stainless appliances, granite countertops with views of the yard, dwelling place, dining place, sunroom, wood-burning fireplace with designer touches and the main dwelling degree. Boasting an inviting flooring prepare, the principal dwelling stage also attributes 3 bedrooms and a beautifully up-to-date full hall tub. Effortless accessibility to the backyard and the gorgeous new Trex deck is offered from the two the dining space and the sunroom in the rear of the household. The decrease amount showcases an incredible renovation including a stunning whole bathtub with a frameless stroll-in shower, tons of storage, one more serene bedroom, a reward area, a excellent household area, and a spacious utility area with laundry. The exterior of this dwelling yard is impeccably landscaped from entrance to back and is surrounded by a white vinyl picket fence, with a customized intended solar-driven gate. The recently set up a few-vehicle carport features a state-of-the-art Abolos metal cover. The expanded Turfstone driveway was thoughtfully mounted to increase to the environmentally friendly room and maintain the look of the garden. This property functions newer devices, more recent appliances, newer windows and an awesome area. Impressive qualify of everyday living provides a close-knit group, walkability to restaurants, grocery procuring, pharmacy, bakery and the prized Hollin Hall Variety Store. Delight in a gorgeous commute together the George Washington Parkway to Ft. Belvoir, The Pentagon, Old City, the District and outside of. Sited in close proximity to two tranquil eco-friendly spaces, examine mother nature whilst residing in a shut-in and easy spot. Waynewood Elementary School district! Nothing to do but go in. Welcome property!
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