The book club reads, meets and discusses one book as often as our schedule allows. An outline will be provided. Discussions are held in private homes. It is highly recommended that one reads the book and come prepared to discuss it. The purpose is to relate participants’ understanding and appreciation of the book from the perspectives of their tour guide profession.
February 5, 2010
RSVP: Jim Carr
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The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
According to the Barnes/Noble synopsis, as an evening lecture gets underway in the U.S. Capitol Building, the night takes a bizarre turn when a disturbing object -- artfully encoded with five symbols -- is discovered in the Capitol Building.
RSVP: Vicky Schwartz
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Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
Kirk Savage
According to the publisher, The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is "a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon," according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, but few realize how recent, fragile, and contested this achievement is. In Monument Wars, Kirk Savage tells the Mall's engrossing story--its historic plan, the structures that populate its corridors, and the sea change it reveals regarding national representation.
