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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Cemetery closed, flagpole damaged
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Andrew Johnson National Historic Site announced that its cemetery is closed to all access after damage caused by Friday night's severe storms. The historic site said the most significant damage was to the flagpole near the top of Signal Hill, where Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, and his family are buried. The flagpole's damage poses a safety hazard, so safety officials will evaluate the property before restoring access to the cemetery. PHOTOS: Damage seen regionwide after overnight storms 'In addition to the flagpole, the presence of damaged trees has necessitated the complete closure of the cemetery for public safety,' says Park Superintendent Aaron Shandor. 'Assessing and addressing the damage is the priority.' According to the historic site, no gravesites were impacted by the storms. The historic site also shared pictures of several large trees that had fallen on the property. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Marywood helps Garden of Cedar grow new features in Scranton
SCRANTON — Frank Dubas' invitation to Marywood University for its students to help design features at his nonprofit Garden of Cedar community lot in South Side came with a condition. 'I said you can do what you want, but I just have one challenge. The challenge is to design things that have form and function, because we are a garden, and that offer some sort of reverence or respect to the neighborhood that we're in. I think they've accomplished that,' Dubas said Thursday during a ribbon-cutting event unveiling the new features. The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic wall planter system (shown in photo), and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) Those features at the garden at 715 Cedar Ave. include native plants, vertical planters, bee nesting 'hotels,' and a hydroponic wall planting system and sculpture that pay homage to the city's history as a cradle of the industrial revolution. The collaboration broadly engaged hundreds of students over a few years, including in competitions and across several majors — architecture, interior architecture, business, graphic design, environmental science and math, said Michelle Pannone, associate professor of interior architecture. 'These projects don't just happen, they really do take a village,' Pannone said. 'They take the creativity, the passion of the students, the support and mentorship of the faculty, the various departments on campus and collaborators that supported us along the way — and of course the trust and vision of a client that believes in the next generation of students.' The largest new feature is a T-rail sculpture that represents a key part of the city's history dating to the mid-19th century, when the historic Scranton Iron Furnaces helped forge the industrial revolution. Still standing from a bygone era, the furnaces at 159 Cedar Ave. originally were operated by the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Co. between 1840 and 1902. It was the site of the first mass production in the United States of iron T-rails for railroads. Dubas explained how the sculpture represents the four main rails that were produced at the Iron Furnaces. The large, permanent artwork also has a grid representing a map of the South Side Iron District neighborhood, perforations representing rail lines that run through Scranton, wavy lines for the Lackawanna River and Roaring Brook, and a compass pointing to the Iron Furnaces, the Garden of Cedar and the railyard roundhouse at what is now the Steamtown National Historic Site. The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a T-rail sculpture homage to the city's iron furnace history of manufacturing rails for railroads (shown in photo behind a planting bed), native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO)The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a 'living T-rail' sculpture (shown in photo, an homage to the city's historic Iron Furnaces that made rails for railroads during the Industrial Revolution), native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) 'They really, really did a remarkable job,' Dubas said of the sculpture. With the garden having planters also representing the arches of the Iron Furnaces, Dubas said, 'There's a lot of representation, there's a lot of history here.' Iain Kerrigan, a 2023 Marywood graduate in architecture, and who was born in Scranton, lives in Old Forge and works in Wilkes-Barre, said he is very grateful to have been involved in the design of the sculpture. The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Recent graduate Iain Kerrigan, at left, speaks during the event. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) 'It's great to have a positive impact on my local community,' Kerrigan said. 'It was a great opportunity for professional development while I was a student studying, which helped me in my career.' Sara Melick, a Marywood instructor of environmental science, said the collaboration between the university and the garden gave students the opportunity to go beyond the classroom and 'really to connect their education with real-world impact.' The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters (shown in photo), a hydroponic wall planter system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) Dubas founded the Garden of Cedar in 2018, began construction of it in 2022 and opened it in 2023. The garden features winding, raised planting beds and a planting wall that local residents can use to grow their own vegetables and plants. Dubas also has used the garden for various holiday displays, including having set out for past Valentine's Days a sea of thousands of large red hearts inscribed with individualized personal messages. The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Photo shows Yamileth Palafox, 1, of South Scranton, whose family uses the community garden to grow vegetables and attended the event. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) Marywood's former president, Sister Mary Persico, I.H.M., recalled how Dubas had spoken of seeing a vacant lot at 715 Cedar Ave. and dreaming of putting 'something beautiful and wonderful' for the community there. 'You have to understand that things don't happen in life unless somebody has a dream to make them happen,' Persico said. 'And so, if he didn't have that dream when he walked by this lot, this would not be here today.' * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas, at left, leaning on a bee hotel podium next to a T-Rail Sculpture, and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic wall planter system (shown in photo), and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas, at right, and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic wall planter system (shown in photo) and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters (shown in photo), a hydroponic wall planter system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 16, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Recent graduate Iain Kerrigan, at left, speaks during the event. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Photo shows Yamileth Palafox, 1, of South Scranton, whose family uses the community garden to grow vegetables and attended the event. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas, at left, and Marywood students and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a 'living T-rail' sculpture (shown in photo, an homage to the city's historic Iron Furnaces that made rails for railroads during the Industrial Revolution), native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a T-rail sculpture homage to the city's iron furnace history of manufacturing rails for railroads (shown in photo behind a planting bed), native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) * The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) Show Caption 1 of 13 The nonprofit Garden of Cedar in South Scranton collaborated with Marywood University to bring a sculpture, native plants, vertical planters, a hydroponic system and bee hotels to the community lot at 715 Cedar Ave. Garden founder Frank Dubas, at left, leaning on a bee hotel podium next to a T-Rail Sculpture, and Marywood students, recent graduates and professors held a ribbon-cutting unveiling event at the site on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO) Expand
CTV News
15-05-2025
- CTV News
Alberta's Bar U Ranch now open for new season
A group of visitors enjoy the ride as a Parks Canada interpreter drives the horse-drawn wagon at Bar U Ranch National Historic Site. (Supplied/Parks Canada) (Ryan Bray/Photo: Ryan Bray)
CTV News
14-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
New Six Nations Visitor's Centre to be built near childhood home of Pauline Johnson
A new visitor's centre will be built near the childhood home of a major Indigenous author. In a news release on Wednesday, Six Nations Tourism announced plans to build the visitor's centre at 1037 Brant County Highway 54, north of Ohsweken, between the home of E. Pauline Johnson and Highway 54. Johnson, who was also known as Tekahionwake, was a beloved Mohawk poet, writer, artist and performer. Her former home is a National Historic Site and museum. In 2016, she was one of a dozen women shortlisted to appear on a Canadian banknote. When the new visitor's centre is built, it will complement to museum and historical site, including increased and improved programming spaces and outdoor gardens. 'The intention of this project is to showcase our Haudenosaunee history and culture, while educating visitors in a welcoming space designed for groups and families alike,' the release said. The visitor's centre is being developed in partnership with GWB Construction, a company based out of Six Nations, and will include materials from True North Log Homes.
Forbes
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Where To Find It Hawaiʻi's Tallest Mural In Honolulu
HONOLULU - Kamea Hadar paints the tallest mural in Hawaii at 220 feet tall and 25 stories. We've grown accustomed to seeing murals dominate cityscapes, as building owners around the world partner with artists to beautify and personalize blank spaces, big and small. While all art pieces add something special to a city or community, some stand out for their sheer size or embedded meaning. In the case of a new record-breaking mural that was just painted on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi, both are true. Kamea Hadar recently completed what has become Hawaiʻi's tallest mural, measuring about 220 feet tall and spanning 25 stories of a large Honolulu skyscraper. The mural took months of planning, according to Hadar, but only four days to paint. The size of the mural in itself is a great feat, but the story behind the artwork, its connection to the purpose of the building, and the message the artwork sends to residents of the building make it extra special. The mural is painted on Nāulu Tower in Honolulu, a new affordable housing project that's set to help local families struggling to afford the high cost of living in Hawaiʻi. 'It's going to be Hawaiʻi's new record-breaking tallest mural,' Hadar told local news station KHON2. 'Affordable housing for over 300 families in Hawaiʻi, that just kind of makes it doubly special for me.' The subject of the artwork is an Iwa bird—a Hawaiian seabird—that has historically been used by the Hawaiian people as a sign of life, safety, and navigation when out on the water. 'I thought that the Iwa bird would be a perfect fit for that because it was used by sailors to navigate,' Hadar told KHON2. 'When they're out at sea, you know that the water and weather is calm, and that's why they're flying out there. So, they're kind of like one of the oceans telltale signs of land, weather, rain… et cetera.' The idea of painting a bird with such traditional meaning on a building set to house families who may be going through turbulent times is a nice message, signaling that calm waters are just ahead. When visiting Oʻahu, you can find the new mural on the outskirts of Honolulu, in an area called Hālawa. Here's the exact address for the building. It's adjacent to the Pearl Harbor Memorial, so very convenient to check out on your way to or from the National Historic Site. When visiting, be aware and courteous to traffic—never block a roadway or stop in a dangerous place—and be respectful of local residents.
