Let the National Park Service Know What You Think
If you couldn't make the meetings with the National Park Service (NPS) on Feb. 2, you still have time to get your comments in on the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. The NPS draft report contains five recommendations, from doing nothing to a full-blown national park based in Los Alamos. Click here to access the draft study or to make comments.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation has been instrumental in the proposal for planning a park. Read more about it on the organization's website.
1945 Radio Interviews with the Atomic Bomb Flight Crews, Part 2
New Podcast: Radio announcer Jack Shelly interviews crews from the Enola Gay and Bock's Car, as well as some of the Manhattan Project scientists on August 11, 1945, in this podcast. It is the second of two podcasts from this broadcast. Special thanks to Bob Krauss, historian of the 509th Composite Group, for getting us the recording. (2.08 MB .mp3 file.)
Learn more about podcasts or how to subscribe to the Los Alamos Historical Society's podcast here.
Oppenheimer is in the Building
A new sculpture of J. Robert Oppenheimer will greet visitors to Fuller Lodge for the next several months. The sculpture, commissioned by Los Alamos County through the Los Alamos Art in Public Places Board in conjunction with the Fuller Lodge/Historic Districts Advisory Board, is the first of a series of historic sculptures planned for the community. A sculpture of Gen. Leslie Groves is in the works. Oppenheimer and Groves will be placed side by side in the Los Alamos Historic District. The Los Alamos County Council is expected to make a decision on the placement of the sculptures in February.
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The Romero Cabin Restored
We are pleased to announce that the Romero Cabin, one of the two remaining homestead cabins on the Pajarito Plateau, has undergone a major restoration. Crews dismantled the logs down to the foundation. New logs were installed in the back and west walls, and the cabin received a new floor and a new roof, as well. The chinking has now been completed. We have recently applied for aa grant for furnishing and interpreting the cabin.
Read more about the history of the Romero Cabin here.
