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Heritage Park ‘Commemorates, Contributes to Entire City’
“Memorials are tricky,” wrote Karen Cord Taylor in “Downtown View” (June 18, 2013). “The most successful examples are, of course, Lincoln’s, Washington’s…The Armenian Genocide Memorial on the Greenway, is another success. I was skeptical…[but] Armenian Heritage Park turned out to be lovely and interesting. It evokes an experience beyond the catastrophe it commemorates. It contributes to the entire city, not to a single group of people.”
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AN EXCELLENT COMMENTERY ON THE PROJECT BY AN ODAR. KUDOS TO THE COMMITTEE FOR PERSEVERING IN THIS PROJECT TO ITS CULMINATION.MANY THANKS TO THEM AND THE MAJOR DONORS.—JOHN MANUELIAN
The Armenian Heritage Park is nice, but, unfortunately, many of its original Armenian design elements were removed.
This was due to certain unprincipled persons (including politicians) and the Boston media.
That the Park came to fruition at all is a tribute to the persistence of the Armenian Heritage Park Committee.
The facts:
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/x179810955