Parks and Other Recreation Areas

A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds

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A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds

For more than a century and a half, Central Park has been a leafy barometer of New York’s shifting fortunes. Projecting the city’s vast ambitions and ideals in the 19th century, it morphed into a Hooverville during the Depression, becoming a beehive of ball fields and “Be-Ins” during the 1960s. …

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At Tippet Rise in Montana, Art and Nature Enhance Each Other

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At Tippet Rise in Montana, Art and Nature Enhance Each Other

Traveling down a dirt road through the rolling grasslands of southern Montana, the snow-capped Beartooth Mountains slowly appear in the distance. A metal-roofed, barnlike structure soon comes into view and, beside it, a 25-foot, abstract black steel sculpture by the artist Alexander Calder. On a low-lying stone wall, rusted metal …

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