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Monday February 7, 2000
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TEXAS

http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/020500/new_counties.shtml Less than one third of Texas counties got their courthouse preservation master plans to the Texas Historical Commission by the Feb. 1 deadline, and four of them are in the Panhandle.

http://www.mysa.com/pantheon/homebase/hbm&s/0702b-metro-briefs.shtml  A history forum, 'The Alamo: Politics and Crisis Outside the Walls, 1836,' will be held Feb. 18 on the grounds of the Alamo.

http://www.mysa.com/pantheon/homebase/hbm&s/0701b-freethinker.shtml The Texas Historical Commission has been embroiled in sacrificing historical accuracy in revising historical marker text. The changes to the text may appear minor, but they are critical to those locked in battle over the role religion did or did not play in the lives of liberal German intellectuals who settled in the Hill Country in the 1840s.

From: Elliott West <ewest@comp.uark.edu> THE CULTURE OF TOURISM AND THE TOURISM OF CULTURE. The Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU is sponsoring a symposium on tourism in the American West. Tourism and travel has become the largest industry on the globe, but its social, cultural, political, and economic implications are only beginning to become clear. In this symposium, specialists will draw from history, anthropology, literary studies, and practical experience to examine the social and economic consequences of tourism on southwestern communities and cultures, from the Alamo to Santa Fe to Tombstone. For further information, please contact Jane Elder, associate director, 214.768.3684 or jelder@mail.smu.edu

NEW MEXICO

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/6news02-07-00.htm  The Hoover Hotel sheltered women and children during the raid on the village by Pancho Villa. Now the structure, listed as a National Historic Building, is being revived by a group of women known as the Columbus Amigas. 

ARIZONA

http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/115-7420.html The 'Paths of Life' exhibit broke the 104-year-old Arizona State Museum's longtime focus on prehistoric artifacts. That focus tended to stereotype Indians as a vanishing race.

http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/110-2876.html The legend of the Iron Door Mine includes a cast of characters - from Jesuit priests who used Indians to mine gold, to Geronimo, to Buffalo Bill Cody, who retired in Oracle.

http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/frnews4.htm Downtown Kingman projects will focus on markers for historic buildings and points of interest that can become part of a historic walking tour.

UTAH

http://deseretnews.com:80/dn/view/0,1249,150011619,00.html? San Juan County holds 25,000 archaeological sites. Rep. Keele Johnson, R-Blanding, wants a training program to preserve the 'vanishing treasures.' HB247 seeks $9,900 to establish an archaeological instruction program at CEU's Blanding campus.

CALIFORNIA

http://www.npca.org/magazine/jan_feb_2000/desert.html Deserts are not the wastelands they were imagined to be a hundred years ago The California Desert Protection Act raised awareness of the historic, natural, and cultural resources.

http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000205/ca-cal-pharm-assoc The Donald F. Salvatori California Pharmacy Museum preserves the history of California Pharmacy through artifacts, memorabilia, photos, and a library archive.

CYBERIA

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/038/region/Indians_paid_for_monitoring_gr:.shtml The state is paying Narragansett Indians to ensure projects don't disturb burial sites. Now other tribes want to be hired. The Nipmuc Nation has threatened to sue the Transportation Department over what the Nipmucs feel is discrimination. For the projects, a tribal historic preservation officer gets paid $25 an hour, a projects director makes $23.40 an hour, a tribal ethno-historian earns $16.25 an hour, a field specialist earns $15 an hour, field assistant earns $11 an hour and typist makes $11.55 an hour. 

http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=000207/196941&s2=world Rebecca Joseph, senior anthropologist for the park service's northeast region, was commissioned to investigate claims that the face of Lady Liberty was that of a black woman.

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