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Tag Archives: Oxon Hill Md.
The Awakening now entertains tourists
For 36 years, a 70-foot statue has been trying to get up in the morning. Guess I’m not so slow after all. The Awakening is a 70-foot statue of a man trying to get up from the earth. There are … Continue reading
The Beckoning symbolizes rising National Harbor
The first thing you’ll see entering National Harbor, a growing waterfront Oxon Hill, Md. tourist and residential development near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, and I mean the very first thing is Albert Paley’s “The Beckoning.” The 85-foot corten steel sculpture … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Paley, National Harbor, Oxon Hill Md., The Beckoning
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First U.S. president rests high on the hill
(Reprinting one of our favorite columns.) Leaving the Gaylord National Hotel in Oxon Hill, I point to a lonely tree above the rising MGM Grand casino and parallel to the beltway and say, “That’s where the first president of the … Continue reading
