At last night's awards ceremony for the Association of Partners for Public Lands, the Mesa Verde Museum Association received the top General Interest Publication award for "Mesa Verde: The Living Park," the association's new basic book about Mesa Verde National Park.
In yesterday's keynote speech (pic above), Dr. Patricia Limerick's theme was based on A. Lincoln's comment in 1861 about people "being touched by the better angels of their nature." Sounded like Herman Wagner! tv
PS: This passage so affected me, I searched for its origin. They are the final words of Lincoln's first inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1861: "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." And then the Civil War came.
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