In a message dated 3/21/00 6:46:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< THE AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND: AN AMERICAN DISCOVERY
(based on a four part TV series) - each part is 28 min. long
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To add to the description from my own point of view:
A large competition was held among architects to commemorate the site with
appropriate public architecture, i.e., monument(s). All the entrees ended up
in the NY State Museum, which, through serendipity, I managed to view. One
archaeologist was included among the judges.
Then, I read, the US Government was having its own competition and published
an RFP in the NY Times,
"U.S. GOVERNMENT ART COMMISSION
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Genera Services Administration requests individuals or team proposals (large
and small businesses) to develop, design, construct and install a defining
Exterior Memorialization Scheme for the African Burial Ground National
Historic Landmark: East of the 290 Broadway Federal Building, NY, NY.
Solicitation No: GS-02P-98-DTC-0024 (N). Estimated Cost: $500,000.00 to
$1,000,000.00. Bidding materials may be obtained from the GSA at the address
below. TEL (212) 264-4276, FAX (212) 264-0588. Maximum two packages per
request. For Fed Ex delivery provide account number. Pre-Proposal Conference,
Feb. 4, 1999, in NYC. Closing March 12, 1998, 4:30 P.M.
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General Services Administration
PBS, Property Development Division, Acquisition Services Br. (2PCB)
26 Federal Plaza, Room 1639
New York, NY 10278"
The size of the notice was about 2" by 4" on the opposite page of the TV
schedule (Part 1 of 2 of the "The Right Stuff" (1983) with Sam Shepard was
on. "A larger-than-life statue of Alan B. Shepard, America's first man in
space, was unveiled Monday outside the Kennedy Space Center." I don't have
the date on the article but one can approximate Jan. 1998. The space is still
empty as far as I know. The founder of the "Society for the Manumission of
Slaves and the Care for those released," in New York, Irish Quaker Thomas
Eddy would not be pleased, (the first president of that society was the
Federalist John Jay). Thomas Eddy once lived on the "250 Water Street" block,
someday an urban archaeological site within the South Street Seaport Historic
District in downtown NYC.
George J. Myers, Jr.
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