Think you've seen the Lincoln Memorial? You've never seen it like this.
The National Mall and Memorial Parks, on the 146th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address last week, launched a new Web site, Lincoln Memorial Interactive at www.nps.gov/linc/.
The site not only gives millions of people who have never visited it personal access to the Washington, D.C., memorial, but it also allows visitors a 360-degree online tour of the building and the ability to download 13 reflections -- as videos or audio MP3s -- from National Park rangers.
Bill Line, spokesman for the National Park Service, said the site offers "wonderfully rich photography" and touching and moving tributes from the rangers, who include an elderly Korean War veteran and a woman who grew up repressed in Somalia.
"It is a real treat," he said. "(It) sucks you in. You want to watch the whole thing."
The views of the memorial to the 16th president, born 200 years ago this year, include little-seen features such as the stained glass skylights, the bound sticks or fasces on which the marble Lincoln statue in depicted resting his hands, and the murals above the inscription of the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's second inaugural address.
Mr. Line said although the Lincoln Memorial interactive site came out of the National Park Service budget, its partner the Trust for the National Mall has offered to fund future efforts in Washington, D.C., to parallel the new one.
Clint Cooper is the faith editor and a staff writer for the Times Free Press Life section. He also has been an assistant sports editor and Metro staff writer for the newspaper. Prior to the merger between the Chattanooga Free Press and Chattanooga Times in 1999, he was sports news editor for the Chattanooga Free Press, where he was in charge of the day-to-day content of the section and the section’s design. Before becoming sports ...
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