In Tulsa, a rusty portal to the past
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The Oklahoma city unearths a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere time capsule buried 50 years ago and celebrates an era of innocence and mobility.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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An American institution is in danger of fading away.
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By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS  TULSA, Okla. - A Plymouth Belvedere that was put in a crypt beneath the courthouse lawn in 1957 to celebrate Oklahoma's 50 years of statehood is set to see the light of day, in time for the centennial. But it might be a little rusty.
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Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of Western culture in Africa.
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The rectilinear glass box has become a relic of the predigital past.
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&quot;You are entering the past,&quot; the sign says. &quot;No cellphones.&quot; Inside, the wooden floor creaks in spots and the aisles are crammed with everything from souvenir coffee mugs to toothpaste. There's even homemade fudge.
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It's a stately old building with looming columns, worn marble stairways and arched doorways &#151; dedicated in 1900 "to the conservation, advancement and dissemination of American Heritage."
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FURAWIYAH, Sudan -- Rummaging through the ashy debris of this abandoned village in a dingy gray suit, Moussa Safi is like a ghost in a ghost town.
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You have to travel back in time to get from the nearest town to the chipped and wind-whipped little stone face that peers out over the Missouri River and the endless plains beyond.
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In this remote and rusting town on the barren steppes of Central Asia, the space race and the Sputnik era seem much more than a memory.
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By Deborah S. Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 8--In the end, the community came together to preserve its past with an eye toward the future.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it.
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The ballroom is decorated with floor-to-ceiling paintings of shiny soda fountains, classic cars and the old store windows downtown. A stoop juts out from a rendering of the high school facade, so graduates can sit and talk &#151; just like in the old days. And just like in the old days, not everyone in town is invited.
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Within the vast collection of the new National Museum of the American Indian is a stark reminder of some of the darkest days of Colorado history.
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Recent moves across the South, but even in the capital, seek to modify statues and plaques for historical figures to reflect racist past.
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Before Lisa Taleghani can get organized, she has to get rid of the junk. Three generations of it is crammed into the attic, basement, and back porch of her late grandmother's home in Revere.