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JAMES CITY -- Despite a staggering estimate of $11.4 million in damages, Colonial National Historical Park representatives insist that artifacts flooded in the Historic Jamestowne Visitor Center by Hurricane Isabel will be restored and ready when a new collections building opens by 2007. Let's hope so, because Congress is watching. “I'm going to be anxiously waiting to see what they find,” Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-1st) said this week, referring to a National Park Service investigation into the flooding. “I'm hoping we didn't do anything wrong, and we can learn from it if we were to have another disaster.” Elaine...

<p>McCARTHY -- Like most people who meet the Pilgrim family for the first time, Walt Wigger was mightily impressed when they showed up to buy his mine in the Wrangell Mountains.</p> <p>Wigger, a crusty Fairbanks miner in his 80s, was struck by the size of the family and its energy and obvious unity of purpose. He was also impressed by the $30,000 in $100 bills that Papa Pilgrim pulled from his coat pocket -- money from cashing the family's Alaska Permanent Fund dividend checks.</p>

ECO - LOGIC After the Pilgrims... Park Service Rewrites History - and Law By "McCarthy Annie" Editor's note: This story is provided by the American Landrights Association, where you can find extensive coverage of the Pilgrim's plight. ALRA has established a Legal Defense Fund to help pay Pilgrim's attorney. Checks should be made payable to ALRA, with "Pilgrim Family" in the notation area. Here are a few more examples of how the Park Service and other federal agencies are driving people off their land: Bob LearzafDonald ScottDiane Luppi If you ever come to visit me in this rugged back corner...

<p>The National Park Service, which manages Alcatraz as one of San Francisco's most popular tourist attractions, has started selling boxed chunks of concrete from the federal prison that once housed Al Capone, George ``Machine Gun'' Kelly and Robert ``Birdman'' Stroud.</p>

THURSDAY JUNE 26 2003 ShopNetDaily Page 1 News Page 2 News G2 Bulletin BizNetDaily LocalNetDaily Commentary Classified Ads Letters People Search SportsNetDaily Health Weather TV Guide Movies Stocks PARK WARS: PART 1 'Pilgrim' family butts heads with feds Alaska 'hillbillies' take on bureaucrats over access to private land Posted: June 26, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: This is Part 1 of a 2-part series examining the battle a large Alaska family is fighting with federal officials over access to their land, which is located in a national park. By Sarah Foster © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Not many travelers find their...

Yes: Plan endangers equal access at all national parks With the onset of summer, Americans' thoughts are turning to where to spend this year's family vacation. Our national parks, with their breathtaking scenery and generally affordable accommodations, have long been the destinations of choice for millions of families. They may not be much longer. If a U.S. Park Service plan to limit public access to California's spectacular Yosemite National Park is allowed to stand, similar schemes could soon be in the works for other national parks, forcing many vacationers to go elsewhere for their relaxation. Yosemite is one of the...

<p>On June 1, services began at 1 p.m. at the Confederate State Park at Higginsville [MO] in memory of those Confederate Americans buried there.</p> <p>About 300 gathered to pay their respects. Those attending were descendants of those buried there, some were there to just pay their respects, and some came for the ceremonies.</p>

I would like to take this opportunity to tell readers to boycott Dana Stabenow's work. She writes mysteries...her most famous character is the Kate shugak/Alaska series. I just began reading her 2002 book: A Fine and Bitter Snow. In the opening she goes to visit her friend Dan O'Brien of the Alaska Park Service, only to find that he's lost his job. It is blamed on the Bush administration: "So you've been fired?" "Not exactly. Invited to take early retirement is more like it." She sighed, and said again, "I don't know Kate. At least Clinton and Gore had a...

Almost all who visit Gettysburg, best preserved of all the Civil War battlefields, find it a deeply moving experience. This is truly hallowed ground. Here, tens of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers fought the decisive battle of America's bloodiest war. From the first clash of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, to Lee's attempt turn the Union flank at Little Round Top on the second day, to Pickett's Charge against the Union center on Seminary Ridge on the third, to Lee's bleeding retreat back over the Potomac as a frustrated Abraham Lincoln wondered...

MUCH ABOUT HISTORY Feds fixing 'Southern bias'at U.S. parks Officials look to emphasize horrors of slavery at Civil War battlefields Posted: December 22, 2002 4:01 p.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The National Park Service is looking to rid itself of what it calls Southern bias at major Civil War battlefields and instead emphasize the horrors of slavery. According to Reuters, ground zero for the project is Gettysburg, site of the largest battle ever fought on American soil. Plans are going ahead to build a new visitors center and museum at a cost of $95 million that will completely change the...

<p>PHILADELPHIA — The National Park Service will not permit a Seabees reserve unit to hold a ceremony at the statue of Commodore John Barry, reputed father of the Navy, directly behind Independence Hall.</p> <p>The Seabees unit from Lakehurst Naval Engineering Station, N.J., wanted to bring in a Navy honor guard, lay a wreath and listen to a few words from a priest, but the unit was denied a permit from Independence National Historical Park.</p>