Washington Examiner
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Washington’s monuments are coming back. So is American memory
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A Washington Examiner column reflects on the restoration of Washington D.C.'s monuments, including the Columbus fountain at Union Station, using the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as a cultural touchstone for discussing American civic memory and renewal.
Washington’s monuments are coming back. So is American memory
In the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the idealistic young congressman’s first steps in Washington, D.C., are through the doors of Union Station, where he is greeted by the Columbus fountain and, beyond it, the Capitol dome. That same fountain was renovated this year in the span of just five months, after sitting […]
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