A Permanent Gift
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Source: Photographs taken
August, 2000 © Copyright 2000, Ken Thalheimer
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And so it stands
today. Gleaming stainless steel. Looming over the Meadow long
after the Fair is a distant memory. A monument to the time America
celebrated the Space Age. The flights represented by its orbitals
forgotten achievements. Was that Sheppard? Or Telstar?
It's fountains restored. It's reflecting pool empty to
prevent waders and vandalism. The capitols of nations no longer
represented by electric lights. Disconnected. The capitols of
nations that have not outlived Unisphere.
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Times have
changed.
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Symbol now
of a borough. A community. Its new admirers unmindful of the
time the world stood at its pedestal. Yet knowing that it must
stand for something grand.
"Built to remain
as a permanent feature of the park, reminding succeeding generations
of a pageant of surpassing interest and significance." So
spoke Moses.
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Man's Achievements
on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe. Symbolized in stainless steel.
A permanent Gift.
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