"It began with a man named Edward Bok..."

Preserving a dream — Dream Garden and the Curtis Center
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** The winding road to what became one of the city’s great art installations — and how we kept it from being dismantled.
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Dive into the musings of acclaimed author and columnist Thom Nickels. This latest piece by Nickels discusses the Dream Garden mural in Philadelphia's Curtis Center.

The mural, created by Maxfield Parrish and Louis C. Tiffany, faced potential removal in 1998 when an anonymous buyer planned to relocate it to Las Vegas.

Public outcry led to protests and legal battles, culminating in the mural's preservation in Philadelphia. Nickels' article highlights the community's role in saving this artistic landmark and the importance of public art in cultural heritage.

"It began with a man named Edward Bok, who as a young man published a few pieces in the Brooklyn Eagle, a newspaper once edited by Walt Whitman. The hard-working Bok went to night school and in 1887 became an ad manager at Scribner’s magazine..."

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**Correction Notice
In our previous edition of "Broad + Liberty Weekly Reads" dated June 16th, 2024, the article titled "Friction and fiction at the library" was mistakenly credited to author Richard Koenig. We regret to inform our readers that this was an unintentional error. The article was actually written by Thom Nickels. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

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** About Thom Nickels:
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Thom Nickels is a Philadelphia-based journalist/author and the 2005 recipient of the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism. He has written for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Welcomat, American Catholic Studies, Philadelphia Magazine. He currently writes for City Journal, New York, Frontpage Magazine and Broad + Liberty. He is the author of sixteen books, including Literary Philadelphia, Philadelphia Architecture, Spore, Out in History, Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This (a Lambda Literary Award nominee), Philadelphia Mansions, From Mother Divine to the Corner Swami: Religious Cults in Philadelphia and Death in Philadelphia: The Murder of Kimberly Ernest.. His co-authored play, Rendezvous in Bangkok: Who Killed Thomas Merton premiered in 2021 in Philadelphia.

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