Common sense isn't.
Although the general area was
previously open to public access, it is clear that the visitor
overlook has been neglected for at least a couple years or more. I
last personally visited it in 1995, at which time the facility was
in good shape, and the video equipment was still operating. This is
clearly no longer the case, and has not been for quite some
time.
They used to show a slide show on this screen, and there used to
be benches to sit on while watching.
The projection booth has been
boarded over.
If I remember correctly, it was previously unattended, and one
would push a button to start the show.
At right is the
overlook view towards the
Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (now at archive, 2002) (HRIBF brief
description).
The sign is no longer there.
Below is a panoramic view.
Scroll right if needed to see complete panoramic image.
Five combined, Photo-stitched images from Canon PowerShot S100
Digital ELPH.
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| I realize that if it goes through it will be greatest jewel of my administration.... It is strange how one happens on this sort of thing. When I made that speech in New York advocating the arbitration of questions, even those affecting the honor of a nation, I had no definite policy in view. I was inclined, if I remember rightly, merely to offset the antagonism to the four battleships for which I was then fighting, and I threw out that suggestion merely to draw the sting of the old [Andrew] Carnegie and other peace cranks, and now the suggestion threatens to become the main fact of my four years as president. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Butt to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Clara F. Butt, April 30, 1911. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 2: 635, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Written while serving as military aide to President Taft. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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