The National Park Service is planning to remodel Welcome Park in Pennsylvania.
We need your input on Welcome Park rehabilitation! More info at: https://t.co/owkb3jxBIV pic.twitter.com/nh092m4S5W
— IndependenceNPS ?? (@INDEPENDENCENHP) January 5, 2024
The Park Service describes their plan this way:
The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors. Welcome Park was designed by the internationally acclaimed design firm Venturi & Scott Brown Associates. The park is located on the site of William Penn’s home, the Slate Roof House, and is named for the ship, Welcome, which transported Penn to Philadelphia. The design and construction of Welcome Park was funded by the Independence Historical Trust and was completed in 1982.
The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park includes expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia and was developed in consultation with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. The reimagined Welcome Park maintains certain aspects of the original design such as the street grid, the rivers and the east wall while adding a new planted buffer on three sides, and a ceremonial gathering space with circular benches. The Penn statue and Slate Roof house model will be removed and not reinstalled. In a separate and future effort, new exhibit panels will be installed on the south site wall to replace the Penn timeline.
Let’s recap:
The statue of William Penn will be removed from the park that is on the grounds of William Penn’s house, in the state named for William Penn.
Perhaps one of the most moral founding fathers on American history. A quaker who was anti-slavery and set of a colony explicitly on the principle of religious freedom.
Go to this site here and tell the NPS not to remove Penn’s statue.
The date of submission is January 8 – January 20.
And share this information far and wide.
Sad. Reposted this to Facebook.
ALL of history must e rewritten. There can and will be no exceptions. And until we the people stop them from doing this rewrite it WILL continue. And the left NEVER gives up, quits or goes away willingly or peacefully. Stopping them will require violence.
Why am I not suprised that Democrats want to erase an abolitionist from history?
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This just in…
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/national-park-service-retracts-plan-to-remove-william-penn-statue-from-philadelphia-park/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=33934171
Good news: “Independence National Historical Park has withdrawn the review of a draft proposal to rehabilitate Welcome Park and closed the public comment period. The preliminary draft proposal, which was released prematurely and had not been subject to a complete internal agency review, is being retracted. No changes to the William Penn statue are planned.” (emphasis added)
From Rick’s link above.
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The way I read it, they got so much blowback, so fast, someone realized this was a bad idea (or at least really unpopular) and walked it back.
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Now we need to watch for them to quietly reintroduce it with the same intent to remove the statue, or keep it but put it in the outhouse, or replace it with a 1/1000 scale version, or something.