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Show EDITOR: GAYLON GARBfcTT TIIH DAILY II! KM 1) 5 Sl'NDAY. Jl'I.Y :0. IW Monument .lit brings big changes to tiny town By V. Knight-Ridd- 'I r i v . Visitors to Virginia discover early foothold of democracy I'.y C - JAMESTOWN. Va. John Marshall, who later became chief justice of the Supreme Court, went through the terrible winter at Valley Forge and fought in Revolutionary War battles in many parts of the DION HAYNES Newspaper This ESCALANTE, Utah hamlet nestled in the portion of the state has one ambulance, two grocery stores, two police officers, three gas stations and a " national monument that I ,.7 has drawn thousands of tourists and hundreds of new residents. Life hasn't been the same since when September, President Clinton surprised everyone by signing a proclamation that turned 2 million acres into the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Litter and even human waste are appearing throughout the monument, a picturesque treasure with colorful canyons, intricate limestone formations and shimmering waterfalls. Every day, Main Street, the only road with painted lines, is clogged with traffic. Since September, the site has received 7,000 visitors per month, twice the number of people who toured it prior to the monument designation. A few years ago Escalante residents saw an of nearly 200 people when a lumber mill closed. But during the last nine months, the population has jumped 17 percent to 1,200. Some of the new residents are speculators, hoping to. capitalize on the tourism boom by opening shops and Big wig: Above, a wig maker shows related businesses. sights at Yorktown visitor center. Previously, Escalante was merely a stopover between such major attractions as Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef. Now it has become a destination point. Ironically, town officials believe that ongoing news covBy LAURIE WILLIAMS erage of criticisms concerning SOWBY the designation by Clinton Herald Correspondent have raised the profile of the monument, drawing hordes of Its steel WASHINGTON outdoor enthusiasts. arched and walls brick girders, With few services, Escalante doorways look more like a facofficials are scrambling to meet than a museum. But it's the demand. The town's new tory intentional. budget, which went into effect The United States Holocaust last week, has grown 70 per- Museum is a sobering reminder cent to $359,000. Town officials of the industry of death created expect it to increase by another by Hitler and his followers. The $100,000 next year. steel bars were the kind the "We're seeing crowds of Nazis used to reinforce the crecampers, trailers, boats and matorium ovens. motorcycles, as well as hikers Situated in Washington, D.C., said and bicyclists," off the mall from the just Councilwoman Marilyn Washington Monument and Jackson. "It costs money to pick next to the Bureau of Engraving up the litter they leave behind, and Printing, the Holocaust repair the roads and to provide Museum is not intended to be a water and sewerage." look at artifacts, dioraLast Sept. 18, the president breezy and mas explanations. The subofficially established the monuis serious and the matter ment, a designation aimed at ject exhibits are sobering and somepreserving the site for future times sickening. generations. This will not be as serene as Under federal law, the a normal museum," director bypass the legislative Weinberg said in a process to protect a valuable Jeshajahu Parade magazine article when pioc of land from imminent the museum opened in April and! irreparable harm. Grand 1993. "If it doesn't grip people, Staircase, rich in coal and other we have failed." precious minerals, was facing In fact, the main exhibits on an influx of new mining operathree floors are not recomtions. mended for anyone under 11. But the move, viewed skeptiBut youngsters can get an cally by some residents as an appropriate taste of the subject election-yea- r ploy to win votes on the ground floor's interacfrom the environmental comexhibit titled h tive munity, drew the immediate ire "Remember the Children: of Utahans. Environmentalists Daniel's Story." It's told from were furious that, while the the viewpoint of a child who monument forced miners out of survived the Holocaust. Kids business, Conoco Oil Co. has are also welcome to step into been allowed to continue devel Hall of Remembrance. the oping oil wells in the area. d At the beginning of the Coal consuming businesses tour (which is free but were miffed because the desiga ticket for a certain nation shut off America's sole requires time and day), each visitor is source of clean coal, issued a computerized, passpoforcing the nation to rely on rt-like "identity card" bearing Indonesia at a time when facto the likeness and information on Sec TOWN, G2 an actual Jewish person who south-centr- J KAI.I.KKI) lli'iiiM ( 'iiiivHimli'nl al V.;. 'i. r. fc colonies. He said he went into the war a Virginian and came out an American. "Becoming American" is a theme that comes through strongly in a visit to a triangle of historic sites in Virginia that marked the beginnings of our nation's history. newly-designat- fi ; ' I , Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, arrayed along Colonial Parkway, the tell Virginia's history from its beginning in 1607 until it became part of the new United States in 1776. in 1607, At Jamestown England established its first permanent settlement in the New World. The colony struggled and nearly didn't make it, but it became the foothold for the Virginia Colony that later stretched to the Mississippi and the Great Lakes. At Jamestown, visitors can board replicas of the three that brought the ships colonists to America, see remnants of the 17th century church and statues of Pocahantas and Captain John Smith. Furnaces glow as men in colonial costume demonstrate glass blowing and tell visitors that glass was intended as the principal product of the colony. Abundant sand and 23-mil- four-lan- e 0J W J R Al.l.RKDThc off her craft at a Williamsburg wig shop. At right, Daily visitors take in Herald the e 1. "W t S If you go Times and tickets Colonial Williamsburg is open every day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A visitor center provides parking, information, tickets, bus service and a film, "Williamsburg - The Story of a Patriot." National Park Service facilities at Jamestown and Yorktown are also open daily from 9 a.m. to te 5 p.m. For information A call to brings a colorful vacation planner and information on tickets, reservations, shopping and dining. The Williamsburg Chamber of Commerce has information on the area. The number is See COLONIAL, G2 Archive of horrors offers sobering picture to visitors presi-dehlfca- n walk-throug- self-guide- low-sulf- R COPY n ; If you go Times and tickets Call ahead for free tickets for a certain day and time; it's one of the most popular museums in ashineton. D.CyAna thahces of getting ticketsenc-yWralready there this fcumi$r are pret ty sum. e (1 EcrJaformalton There Call ticket is a $1.75 service oen ; ' i ii For chaieihrSuihlPro-Tix- . over group lp, call the j miiapiira HirpjtTy !! I " at (202) 488-0455.- H was a victim of the Nazis. As the visitor tours the exhibits on each floor, there are instructions to turn to the next page and see what happened at this point for that person. I was relieved at the end of the tour to discover, as I watched the video of survivors telling their stories, that my person was among the narrators. In between, the exhibits cover it all, directly and symbolically. The elevator takes visitors up to the fourth floor, where voices of soldiers who liberated the camp are heard next to a wall-siz- e photograph of the sight that greeted them at Dachau in April 1945: box cars piled high with bodies. As the tour continues, it's a steady decline to the main floor again. Starting with the rise of Nazi power and the decline of Jews from citizen to outcast in Germany, then throughout Europe, the exhibit chronicles the Holocaust in many ways, from videos and other audiovisual presentations to walk- - .m,.m. -- - " - ..! ' " - " I.A1RIK WILLIAMS SOW BVThr D.iiIn H. uU Brick walls: The United States Holocaust Museum, just off the mall near the Washington Monument, has been a popular place to visit since it opened four years ago. Starting with the rise of Nazi power and the decline of Jews from citizen to outcast in Germany, then throughout Europe, the exhibit chronicles the Holocaust in many ways, from videos and other audio-visuexhibits such presentations to walk-throuas cattle cars and concentration camp al gh through exhibits such as cattle cars and concentration camp barracks. Models and reconstructions, such as one of a crematorium with its explanation of the gassing process, enhance learning. step-by-ste- p Two galleries poignantly display photographs of the citizens of one small Jewish community in Lithuania, whose 900 years there ended in two days in 1946. The third floor's "Final Solution" exhibits life-siz- e murals of people being herded into one of 400 ghettos. There's a casting of the remnant of a Warsaw Ghetto wall and tools from the ghetto's workshops. It's the real things that are most disturbing: a wooden train car loaded with luggage taken from prisoners a,t. Auschwitz and Birkenau, and behind a glass case, piles of victims' personal belongings toothbrushes, scissors, silverconfiscated from them ware upon arrival at the camps. In one hall, voices of survivors tell how they survived life in the camps. They speak of separation from their families, of hunger, illness, filth and harsh physical labor, of running See HOLOCAUST, G2 |