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| | == Legacies == | | == Legacies == |
| − | Here are some examples of legacies continued long after the leader passed from this world: | + | Here are some examples of legacies continued long after the leader or creator passed from this world: |
| | *[[Frank Lloyd Wright]] (Arizona) | | *[[Frank Lloyd Wright]] (Arizona) |
| | *[[John Ashbrook]] (Ohio) | | *[[John Ashbrook]] (Ohio) |
| | *[[Russell Kirk]] (Michigan) | | *[[Russell Kirk]] (Michigan) |
| | *[[William Faulkner]] (Mississippi) | | *[[William Faulkner]] (Mississippi) |
| | + | *[[Ernest Hemingway]] (Illinois)<ref>https://www.hemingwaybirthplace.com/</ref> |
| | *[[John Steinbeck]] (California) | | *[[John Steinbeck]] (California) |
| | *[[Roberto Clemente]] (Pittsburgh) | | *[[Roberto Clemente]] (Pittsburgh) |
| | + | *[[American Gothic]] (Iowa)<ref>https://americangothichouse.org/american-gothic</ref> |
| | + | *[[Ludwig von Mises]] (Alabama)<ref>https://mises.org/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Charles Schulz]]<ref>https://schulzmuseum.org/about-schulz/schulz-biography/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Charlie Chaplin]] (Switzerland)<ref>https://charliechaplinmuseumfoundation.com/en/home/#structure</ref> |
| | + | *[[Salvador Dali]] (St. Petersburg, Florida)<ref>https://thedali.org/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Edmond Malone]] ([[Shakespeare]] scholar, The Malone Society is located online<ref>https://malonesociety.com/about-2/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Judy Garland]] (Grand Rapids, Minnesota) |
| | + | *[[Kurt Vonnegut]] ([[Indianapolis]], Indiana)<ref>https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Abraham Lincoln]] (Springfield, Illinois)<ref>His Library and Museum are 2 separate grandiose facilities, each of which is in downtown Springfield. [https://www.lincolnlibraryandmuseum.com/the-museum Museum] [https://www.lincolnlibraryandmuseum.com/the-library Library] [https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/ Illinois official cite] [http://www.illinoisstatemuseum.org/ Illinois State History Museum].</ref> |
| | + | *[[Walter Chrysler]] (Ellis, Kansas)<ref>https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g38688-d4090855-Reviews-Walter_P_Chrysler_Boyhood_Home_Museum-Ellis_Kansas.html</ref> |
| | + | *[[Robert Jackson]], prominent [[conservative]] [[U.S. Supreme Court]] justice of the 20th century (Jamestown, New York)<ref>https://www.roberthjackson.org/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Andy Warhol]] ([[Pittsburgh]]) - a spectacular 7-story gallery<ref>https://www.warhol.org/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Elvis Presley]] ([[Graceland]], Memphis, [[Tennessee]]) |
| | + | *[[Charles Dickens]] (preserving his [[London]] home, at 48 Doughty Street)<ref>https://dickensmuseum.com/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Shakespeare]] Center LA ([[Los Angeles]]), funded by the State of [[California]]<ref>https://www.shakespearecenter.org/history</ref> |
| | + | *[[H.L. Mencken]] ([[Baltimore]])<ref>https://menckenhouse.org/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Robert Frost]] (Derry, [[New Hampshire]])<ref>https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] (Concord, [[Massachusetts]])<ref>https://www.ralphwaldoemersonhouse.org/</ref> |
| | + | *General [[Lew Wallace]], author of [[Ben-Hur (book)]] (Crawfordsville, [[Indiana]])<ref>https://www.ben-hur.com/</ref> |
| | + | *[[Mark Twain]] (Hartford, [[Connecticut]],<ref>https://marktwainhouse.org/</ref> where he wrote his later works, and Hannibal, [[Missouri]],<ref>https://marktwainmuseum.org/</ref> where he grew up) |
| | + | *[[C.S. Lewis]] (The Kilns, in Headington Quarry near Oxford, England<ref>https://www.cslewis.org/ourprograms/thekilns/kilnstour/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (three historical landmarks in St. Paul, [[Minnesota]]<ref>https://saintpaulhistorical.com/items/show/119</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Ross Perot]] (Perot Museum of Nature and Science in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/education/452748-ross-perots-philanthropic-legacy-inspiring-next-generation-of-engineers/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[William Jennings Bryan]] (his winter home in [[Miami]], [[Florida]], known as the Villa Serena) |
| | + | *"Shoeless" [[Joe Jackson]] (Greenville, [[South Carolina]]) |
| | + | *[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] ([[New York City]]<ref>https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Mickey Mantle]] (Commerce, [[Oklahoma]]<ref>https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38696341/shares-mickey-mantle-boyhood-home-soon-sale-7</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Rudyard Kipling]]<ref>https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/kip_life.htm</ref> (the Bateman's, a Jacobian house in Sussex, England<ref>https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/batemans</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Claude Monet]] (his preserved home in Giverny, France.<ref>https://giverny.org/monet/home/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] (homes in Portland, [[Maine]] and [[Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]<ref>https://www.hwlongfellow.org/house_overview.shtml</ref>) |
| | + | *[[George Orwell]] (Barnhill, Jura, is where Orwell wrote ''[[1984]]'' and it is available for rent; both the Orwell Foundation<ref>https://www.orwellfoundation.com/</ref> and the Orwell Society<ref>https://orwellsociety.com/</ref> carry on the legacy of his work today) |
| | + | *[[Herman Melville]] (Arrowhead, where he wrote ''[[Moby-Dick]]'', maintained today by the Berkshire County Historical Society in Pittsfield, [[Massachusetts]]<ref>https://berkshirehistory.org/herman-melville-arrowhead/restoration-of-arrowhead/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Roger Maris]] (Fargo, [[North Dakota]], his hometown<ref>https://westacres.com/attractions/roger-maris-museum/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Andrew Jackson]] (his home, called the "Hermitage", in Nashville, [[Tennessee]]<ref>https://thehermitage.com/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Grover Cleveland]] (his childhood home in [[New Jersey]]<ref>https://nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/historic/grovercleveland.html</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Brigham Young]] (his home in Nauvoo, Illinois<ref>https://ensignpeakfoundation.org/brigham-young-home/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Patrick Henry]] (his church in Richmond where he gave his famous speech "Give me liberty ... or give me death!"<ref>https://www.historicstjohnschurch.org/home</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Calvin Coolidge]] (birthplace and childhood home as preserved as a Vermont Historic Site, in Plymouth Notch<ref>https://historicsites.vermont.gov/calvin-coolidge</ref>) |
| | + | *[[Paul Revere]] (the Paul Revere House in [[Boston]]<ref>https://www.paulreverehouse.org/</ref>) |
| | + | *[[William Tyndale]] (the Little Sodbury Manor in Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England) |
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| | + | == References == |
| | + | {{reflist}} |
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