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SALINA JOURNAL encore! FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2005 D3 PHOTOGRAPHS This 1964 photograph by Dr. Harold E. Edgerton shows a .30 bullet traveling at 2800 feet per second as it pierces an apple. Classic photos to make stops in small towns Photo museum wants to share its treasures with rural America By BEN DOBBIN The Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. Americans living far from big cities will get a close-up view of 300 classic photographs that reflect the nation's soul: Ansel Adams landscapes, battle scenes from Gettysburg to Omaha Beach, engaging portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Judy Garland, Babe Ruth.

Many are widely familiar Dorothea Lange's migrant mother during the Depression, Edward Weston's seductive pepper, the first lunar orbiter's image of Earth. Others, if less iconic, evince the power of nature, the misery of war, the tug of family, the glow of Hollywood. The treasured pictures are usually secreted along with 400,000 others in climate-controlled vaults at George Eastman House, the world's oldest photography museum. Next spring, they will be gathered up for a two-year tour of the nation's hinterland. "Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography" will nestle for months at a time in a half-dozen small towns and midsize cities.

The exhibition is part of a visual-arts project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts to send the best of American culture from 11 museums and galleries to places with limited exposure to world- class collections. The Eastman House is throwing darts at each vast corner of the country Florida is one probable destination as well as some place in the heartland. But it will be a few months before the communities are chosen. Minimum requirements: air conditioning and security. "It couldn't just go into a school lobby," said Alison Nordstrom, the MUSEUMS museum's curator of photographs.

"It would have to be in a place where there are people whose job is to keep an eye on things." The impulse, nonetheless, is to make an accessible art form accessible to the people outside the metropolitan cultural centers. "We are a collections-rich institution and we understand ourselves as the national museum of photography," Nordstrom said. "It's important that we make some new friends." Unlike a traveling theater or art show, photographs seem much more likely to capture the popular imagination. "There's a reverence for art museums, but there's also a certain level of discomfort 'What if I don't know Nordstrom said. "But everybody feels they know enough to appreciate photographs." Although the technology has changed entirely since photography's birth in 1826, "the quality of ROCK some of the early works is just truly outstanding, even by today's standards," said Popular Photography magazine's editor in chief, John Owens, who toured Eastman House last year.

"To see some of these pictures, it's like you're there. In some cases, you feel what the photographer must have felt, especially some of the prints from the Civil War period." An introductory exhibit will contain acknowledged masterpieces covering a spectrum of subjects, format and history: the flag-raising at Iwo Jima, Martin Luther King Jr. on the United Nations steps, "Moonrise, Hernandez" and other black-and-white expanses of nature by Adams. One of five categories will be devoted to famous people an aging Ruth in the dugout, a young Garland in a necklace and gown, a gawky soon-to-be President Lincoln in 1860. Another will depict war Tim- This 1945 photo of Babe Ruth taken by photographer Nickolas Muroy was a gift to the Eastman House from Mrs.

Nickolas Muroy. The photo, along with other treasured pictures, are usually secreted along with 400,000 others in climate-controlled vaults at George Eastman House, the world's oldest photography museum. Next spring, they will be gathered up for a two- year tour of the nation's hinterland. Photos courtesy of George Eastman House he Net www.eastman. org othy O'Sullivan's "A Harvest of Death" at Gettysburg, Robert Capa's D-Day scene of soldiers swimming toward Omaha Beach, Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut's shot of a blistered and screaming 9-year- old girl running from a napalm attack in Vietnam.

Housed since 1949 in the Colonial Revival mansion of Kodak founder George Eastman, the museum will organize a variety of educational activities for schools and families and offer staff experts for a lecture series on photography in each of the host towns. It is drawing the biggest federal grant $200,000 out of $1.18 million to take part in the first year of "American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius." The other 10 participants include New York's Museum of Arts Design, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Dallas Museum of Art, which is staging an exhibit on the history of silver design. Prison museum not a lock Lansing wants a museum dedicated to 4 nearby prisons ByTtie Associated Press LANSING Mayor Kenneth Bernard wants to build a $1 million museum dedicated to the area's largest employer prisons. Leavenworth County has four prisons housing more than 4,000 inmates and employing more than 1,500 people. The two most famous prisons are the U.S.

Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, which handles military prisoners, and the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, which takes civilians. In addition, the county is home to the Lansing Correctional Facility, which houses Kansas felons, and a private prison in Leavenworth operated by the Corrections Corporation of America, Bernard said he is confident a prison museum would increase tourism and interest in the area. Already, the area sees visitors who ask about famous inmates, such as bank robber George "Machine Gun" KeUy and Army Lt. William Galley, who served time for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

The museum would showcase an industry that has, in some cases, employed generations of family members. "The prison industry has been such an important industry in our community," said Shanae Randolph, Lansing's economic development and visitors bureau director. Bernard said he wants the museum to have a memorial to slain correctional officers and, more controversially, possibly the state's gallows. The Kansas State Historical Society, which received the gallows from the Department of Corrections in 1986, has them in storage and has resisted giving them to Lansing. The reservations are partly out of OLYMPUS Digital Cameras For Mcniorinl Day Fur respect for relatives of the Herbert Clutter family from near Holcomb.

The family's killers. Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were among those executed on the gallows. Kansas has since switched to lethal injection as its execution method of choice but hasn't executed a prisoner since capital punishment was reinstated in the state in 1994. Bernard and other museum supporters say the gallows are part of the area's history "It's not our intention to glorify any of the specific murders," he said. Instead, the city leaders envision a museum like others around the country trying to educate and erase some myths about prison life.

The museum would be built on the grounds of the Lansing Correctional Facility and designed to resemble the prison's main entrance, complete with watchtowers. Retired correctional officers would tell stories about their jobs and the history of the various prisons. Visitors would be able to see examples of old and modern jaU cells. A gift shop featuring items made by prisoners would help support the museum. Officials say they are still amassing federal and state grants, and construction may not start for another year or two.

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Many in the crowd jumped up, dancing and waving their arms. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, based in RockvUle, measured the unamplrfied sound at 62 decibels a normal level and the amplified sound at 124 decibels, which they said is like a jet engine. Fleetwood, a 1998 inductee into the Rock Hall, said many rock musicians now wear ear protection or monitor their music electronically, but he questioned whether quiet concerts would catch on. "Who's to say? Could you see 18,000 people someday listening to Pink Floyd on head phones? Maybe, with a weird magic wand," he said. "What I'd hope this does is make the point that you can wear ear protection, such as earplugs, at concerts and still enjoy the concert." merry maids, www.merrymaids.com Trust Your Help Free Estimates Salina Abilene 785-263-2779 Cash Carry Final niir 1 1T IsuCniture is Going Out Business.

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