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Observing the War on Poverty on the Landscape

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty.” How did the many programs associated with this effort shape the material, social and political landscapes of the United States? What can a National Park, home to the nation’s first Job Corps site in 1965, reveal about the legacies, both individual and collective, of the War on Poverty? Guest observer Angela Sirna offers her observations on these complex questions.

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Ohio Earthwork Saved by Social Media Campaign

Not every story to save a nationally significant cultural landscape from imminent sale and development has a happy ending. Often the auction sign goes up, there is a brief period of bewailing the tragedy, then the inevitable happens, and the dozers move in. But this was not what happened in the campaign to save the Junction Earth Works in Chillicothe Ohio. The outcome is a lesson in how strong partnership and new media can be combined to save a landscape.

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Observing the War on Poverty on the Landscape

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty.” How did the many programs associated with this effort shape the material, social and political landscapes of the United States? What can a National Park, home to the nation’s first Job Corps site in 1965, reveal about the legacies, both individual and collective, of the War on Poverty? Guest observer Angela Sirna offers her observations on these complex questions.

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Ohio Earthwork Saved by Social Media Campaign

Not every story to save a nationally significant cultural landscape from imminent sale and development has a happy ending. Often the auction sign goes up, there is a brief period of bewailing the tragedy, then the inevitable happens, and the dozers move in. But this was not what happened in the campaign to save the Junction Earth Works in Chillicothe Ohio. The outcome is a lesson in how strong partnership and new media can be combined to save a landscape.

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