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National Mall Times October 2009 National Mall Times October 2009 Welcome to National “Malady in City “From the moment I got up Mall and Memorial Increasing Despite in the morning to when I Parks! went to bed at night, I felt a Preventive Measures” constant sense of fear. We October is a great The 1918 Influenza Epidemic were afraid to kiss each other, time to experience in Washington, D.C. to eat with each other, to your national park! have contact of any kind. You Our ranger staff By Ranger Sandy Tennyson were surrounded by death…. presents interpretive entire families were gone Makeshift treatment area on a porch at Walter Reed Hospital during 1918 flu epidemic. programs throughout In the fall of 1918, as the United completely… they disappeared Library of Congress the park from bike from the face of the earth.” States was coming to grips with including vital War Bond Drives, tours and evening the horrors of death from the First were suspended. Unfortunately, walking tours to - William H. Sardo, Jr., World War, the country found these measures were in vain. By shorter detailed Washington, D.C. resident, itself battling another horror, an Saturday, October 5, fifty-four programs of each 6 years-old in 1918 extremely deadly and infectious police officers were sick and two memorial. influenza spread across the hundred sixty-one trolley car county in epidemic proportions. drivers became ill, causing the To learn more about Stealthily, the gruesome virus transportation system to ground the future of the known as the Spanish Influenza to a halt. With so many firemen National Mall, visit began its march from the trenches sick, the Fire Marshal believed “the the National Mall Plan of Europe to U.S. military facilities. whole city’d burn to the ground if website (www.nps. a fire ever got started.” gov/nationalmallplan) As it reached Americans shores, to read current millions were stricken and The U.S. Government, in the midst alternatives, express hundreds of thousands died. of trying to win a war, staggered ideas, and follow our The onset of the disease was work hours of all its employees, progress. severe. Victims reported dull hoping to stop the spread of the headaches and body aches in the virus by relieving crowding on Page through this morning. By noon, symptoms street cars. Workers were also newspaper to find included an increasingly high fever. advised to keep office windows out more about the Nightfall brought no relief as the open, and thirty-minute “fresh air many fascinating victim drifted into a semi-conscious breaks” were mandatory twice a ranger programs state. Most would not see sunrise, day. offered throughout succumbing to suffocation from the park. Our park fluid buildup in their lungs. The disease peaked in the late staff and volunteers fall and disappeared as suddenly will be glad to The first cases of influenza as it had arrived, leaving its mark answer any of your appeared in Washington, D.C. in American Red Cross advertisement, The Evening of fear across the nation. By the questions. Thanks for Star, Wednesday, October 9, 1918 the last week of September. The time the pandemic had subsided visiting, and have a federal city, overcrowded with new acted swiftly closing schools, in Washington, at least 30,000 wonderful experience employees supporting the war- playgrounds, churches, theaters, residents had become ill and 3,000 at National Mall and time government, was extremely vaudeville houses and “all places had died. Memorial Parks! vulnerable. District officials of amusement.” Public meetings, National Park Service Page 2 Page 4 Page 6 U.S. Department of the Interior • Ranger Led Bike Tours • Ranger Led Programs, • Washington Monument continued Tickets National Mall and Memorial Parks • Potomac Nature Packs • Eastern National 900 Ohio Drive, SW Page 3 • New Lincoln Memorial • Tourmobile Washington, DC 20024 • Ranger Led Programs Webpage • Old Post Office Tower NHS Tours and Presentations 202-233-3520 • NPS Organic Act www.nps.gov/nama or www.nps.gov/mall Page 5 • Daily Ranger Programs National Mall Plan Website: www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan • Getting Around in Washington, D.C. Radio: 1670 AM October 2009, Volume 2 Issue 10 National Mall Times 1 Ranger Led Bike Tours Join National Park Service rangers Lincoln Memorial? What is George every Saturday and Sunday from Washington leaning on? You will 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. for FREE guided never look at the monuments and bike tours of the Nation’s Capital. memorials on the National Mall the (Family Tours are given on the third same way again! Sunday of the month from 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.) Tour season Parents – Please note; all participants begins Saturday, March 28, and (children and adults) must have their continues through Sunday, November own bike and helmet. Reservations 29, 2009. Please bring your own bike, for Family Tours are required. Please helmet (required), and water. All call Bike Program Coordinator Ranger tours begin at the Thomas Jefferson Jason Martz 202-438-4391 to make Memorial plaza. reservations. Space is limited. For more information call Bike Saturday, October 24 Program Coordinator, Ranger Jason Pop Culture on the National Mall Martz at 202-438-4391, or check our website: www.nps.gov/mall. Join park rangers as they lead a bike tour exploring the history of the Saturday, October 3 National Mall from a slightly different The Mercury Seven angle. This won’t be your average, Saturday, October 17 textbook history of the monuments and From Infection to Election: Presidential Fifty years ago America’s first seven memorials, but history through the eyes Illnesses astronauts were introduced to the world at a of film, music, sports, and other modes news conference in Washington, D.C. Their of popular culture. Aliens crash into the Do you suffer from asthma? Gout? enthusiasm and charm captured the national Washington Monument in “The Day the Dysentery? Hypertensive cardiomyopathy? spotlight, and they became virtual celebrities Earth Stood Still”, Nixon welcomes Elvis If so, then you have something in common overnight. Their mission, known as Project to the White House, Houdini wants to with quite a few American presidents. Join Mercury, was the initial phase of America’s parachute off the top of the Washington park rangers for a bike tour around the first attempts at breaking the veil of our Monument, Jenny runs through the National Mall, stopping at thematically- atmosphere, and hurtling brave volunteers Reflecting Pool in “Forrest Gump”, and related sites to explore the illnesses and in the vast reaches of outer space. Join much, much more. Come out and hear how diseases of select commanders-in-chief. National Park Service rangers as we explore popular culture has changed our perspective Find out who had food poisoning, who the story of the Mercury Seven and their in these alternative annals of history. was blind in one eye and deaf in one ear, impact upon the world. who may not have had polio after all, and Sunday, October 25 whose debilitating stroke was covered up Sunday, October 4 Photography on the Mall - Then and Now throughout his presidency. “From Infection Transportation History of D.C. to Election” uncovers the back story of Ever wonder where you can best photograph several diseases that may have had an Come and explore the history of the United States Capitol, the Thomas adverse effect on the presidency, thereby Washington, D.C. as told through the Jefferson Memorial, the White House, the affecting American, and world, history. development of the regional transportation Washington Monument, or any of the other network. This tour will trace Washington, iconic locations around the city? Grab Sunday, October 18 D.C. transportation history from the canals your camera and join us for a two-wheeled On this Date in History - “All Quiet Along of the earliest days to the rail, road, and air jaunt across the National Mall to see what the Potomac Tonight:” The Battle at Ball’s networks of the 21st century. it looked like after the turn of the 20th Bluff century, and then take your own shots from Saturday, October 10 some of our best vantage points today! See On October 21, 1861, a great Civil War Did Silly Putty Win the War? the National Mall through the eyes of the battle raged just a few dozen miles from Everyday Items from Wartime camera lens, and take home the pictures of a Washington City, near a bend in the Potomac lifetime! River. Immediately in the wake of the Union No, silly putty did not win the war, but it disaster there, Washington politicians and may not have existed if World War II had newspapers commenced the usual game not taken place. Many items we take for of finger pointing, backstabbing, and fault granted today have emerged from war-time finding in their search for a scapegoat. society-items that were invented to speed Would they blame the President, the the war along, and items that were created Secretary of War, the commanding general, purely by accident. Join park rangers for or the senior officer on the field—who just a bike tour through war history, and the happened to be the best friend of Abraham surprising inventions that came out of it. Lincoln? Who would take the fall? We will You may never look at a can of soup the focus our attention on Washington, D.C. and same way again! National Park Service sites where the story of this small-scale, yet fascinating, military Sunday, October 11 engagement forever altered the course of On This Date in History- The United States the American Civil War, and affected the Navy—Past and Present lives of everyone associated with it—for better or for worse.
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