The Big House Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity that has been formed to create a legacy by preserving the home and history of the Allman Brothers Band in Macon, Georgia. Together with friends and fans of this band, the project will secure the Big House and its vast memorabilia collection for generations to come. Once renovations are completed, the Big House will be opened to the public as the Allman Brothers Band Museum.
The 6,500-square-foot Huntington House Museum is an example of neoclassical revival architecture and was modeled after a Newport, RI mansion. It includes breathtaking leaded glass and 12-foot ceilings, as well as spectacular staircases, woodwork, and china cabinets.
This hand-hewn oak log cabin stands on the east bank of the Sheyenne River. Built in 1878 by Carl Jensen and his nephew John Bjerke, the cabin served as a community hall, country store, pioneer home, and finally as an icehouse. There is a marker on the site.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.
The Hotel Halbrook Railroad & Local History Museum will be restored to reflect life in the early 20th century, a story of the defining era for the Dickson community. The 1912 building is one of the few remaining examples of a rural Tennessee railroad hotel.
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Professor David Hackett Fischer traces how definitions of the ideals of liberty and freedom have changed over the course of U.S. history, from the American Revolution to the present day. He looks particularly at visual and literary symbols that have been created to stand for these ideals.
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Professor Michael Nelson discusses Abraham Lincoln and religion.
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Professor David Tucker looks at the views of religion, government, and the ideal American citizen and way of life presented in early 20th-century writing and contrasts them with the views on the same subjects held by the Founding Fathers. He uses writing by the authors Flannery O'Connor (19251964), Herbert Croly (18691930), and Howard W. Kellog.
Professor Christopher Flannery looks at the autobiography of novelist, journalist, historian, and academic Henry Adams (18381918). Flannery focuses on what it says about the "American character" and how Adams saw it changing at the turn of the century.