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Mrs. Laura Bush welcomes guests to the East Room of the White House Monday, May 12, 2008, as she congratulates the recipients of the 2008 Preserve America Presidential Awards. The African Burial Ground Project, The Corinth and Alcorn County Mississippi Heritage Tourism Initiative, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program were all honored for their efforts in preserving our national historic sites.
Mrs. Laura Bush welcomes guests to the East Room of the White House Monday, May 12, 2008, as she congratulates the recipients of the 2008 Preserve America Presidential Awards. The African Burial Ground Project, The Corinth and Alcorn County Mississippi Heritage Tourism Initiative, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program were all honored for their efforts in preserving our national historic sites.
Mrs. Laura Bush listens to a reading of a Paul Laurence Dunbar poem during a tour of the Wright-Dunbar Village, a Preserve America neighborhood, in Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, August 16, 2006. Paul Laurence Dunbar published a newspaper for the African American community, which the Wright Brothers printed for him in their printing shop. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush and Mesa Verde National Park Superintendent Larry Wiese share a laugh, Thursday, May 23, 2006, during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Mesa Verde and the Antiquities Act in Mesa Verde, Colorado. Also pictured are members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush pauses for a photo while hiking in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado with, from left, Lynn Scarlett, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, Fran Mainella, Director, National Park Service and Larry Wiese, Superintendent of Mesa Verde National Park on Tuesday, May 23, 2006. Mesa Verde, founded as a national park on June 29, 1906, is celebrating its Centennial Anniversary this year. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush speaks from Long House cliff dwelling, Thursday, May 23, 2006, in the western portion of Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde, Colorado. Long House was excavated between 1959 and 1961 as part of the Westerill Mesa Archeological Project. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush delivers remarks, Monday, April 24, 2006, during a visit to The Mount Estate and Gardens, home of author Edith Wharton and a 2005 Preserve America Presidential Award recipient, in Lenox, Mass. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Laura Bush delivers remarks Thursday, March 9, 2006, in Washington, DC, during an award ceremony honoring 45 Preserve America communities who received grants to help them develop resource management strategies and sound business practices for continued preservation and use of their heritage assets. Twenty-eight states were represented in the first round of Preserve America grants with a total of $3.5 million awarded. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Laura Bush, listens to a student talk about Sea Turtles, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006, as Fran Mainella, Director of the National Park Service, and Stella Summers, Teacher of the Gifted Science class, look on during a visit to Banyan Elementary School in Miami, FL, to support education about parks and the environment. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush announces that she will be leading a Preserve America Summit in partnership with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation during a conference at Tulane University in New Orleans Wednesday, May 31, 2006. The summit highlights how cultural attractions, especially along the Gulf Coast, can benefit their local communities. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush listens to Dr. Libby O’Connell, Chief Historian of The History Channel, during a youth breakout session at the Preserve America Summit in New Orleans, La., Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush smiles at Gerry Kohler, recipient of the 2006 Preserve America History Teacher of the Year award, while delivering remarks during a ceremony at the Union League Club in New York City, Thursday, October 5, 2006. Mrs. Kohler is a teacher at VanDevender Junior High School in West Virginia. Also shown are Dr. James Basker, President, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, left, and Patrick Shahan and Elizabeth Corbit, students of Mrs. Kohler’s. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush addresses the Preserve America Summit at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, La., Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006. "By creating institutions like the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the State Historic Preservation Offices, and the National Register of Historic Places, the National Historic Preservation Act has saved priceless artifacts of American history, and led to four terrific decades of preservation work throughout the United States," said Mrs. Bush. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush is joined by Richard C. Cote, curator, U.S. Department of the Treasury, as she views the completed restoration of the Salmon P. Chase suite in the U.S. Treasury Building, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007, in Washington, D.C., part of a tour showing the first major restoration at the U.S. Treasury Building, a National Historic Landmark.
Mrs. Laura Bush, U.S.Senator. Mike DeWine, and U.S.Rep. Mike Turner listen to National Park Ranger Larry Blake as he shows them a model of the Wright Brothers airplane during a tour of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in the Wright-Dunbar Village, a Preserve America neighborhood, in Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, August 16, 2006. Also shown is Fran DeWine, wife of Sen. Mike DeWine. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush watches a student play a ring toss game at Balboa Magnet Elementary School Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007, in Northridge, Calif., as they participate in Junior Ranger activities. The National Park Service Junior Ranger program provides activities in parks and partnering schools to teach young people about America's National Parks. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne swear in new Junior Rangers, students at Balboa Magnet Elementary School Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007, in Northridge, Calif. The National Park Service Junior Ranger program provides activities in parks and partnering schools to teach young people about America's National Parks. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush is applauded by Hawaiian Gov. Linda Lingle, left, at the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument Naming Ceremony, Friday, March 2, 2007 in Honolulu, where Laura Bush unveiled the new Hawaiian name as the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. The Northwestern Monument represents the largest single conservation area in our nation's history and the largest protected marine area in the world. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush helps children plant flowers at the First Bloom Event, Monday, April 21, 2008, during her visit to celebrate National Park week at the Castle Clinton National Monument in New York City. Mrs. Laura Bush helps children plant flowers at the First Bloom Event, Monday, April 21, 2008, during her visit to celebrate National Park week at the Castle Clinton National Monument in New York City.
Mrs. Laura Bush discusses the history of Castle Clinton National Monument with Ms. Maria Burks, National Parks Service, Commissioner, National Parks of NY Harbor and Superintendent, Manhattan Sites, and Mr. Mike Amato, National Parks Service Ranger Monday, April 21, 2008, during her visit to the First Bloom Event at the Castle Clinton National Monument in New York City. Mrs. Laura Bush works with students from the Williams Preparatory School in Dallas, Thursday, April 10, 2008, during planting events at the First Bloom program to help encourage youth to get involved with conserving America's National Parks.
Mrs. Laura Bush joins students from the Williams Preparatory School in Dallas, Thursday, April 10, 2008, during a seed planting demonstration at the First Bloom program to help encourage youth to get involved with conserving America's National Parks. The First Bloom program is being introduced in five cities across the nation to give children a sense of pride in our natural resources and to be good stewarts of America's diverse environment. Mrs. Laura Bush applauds program speakers as she joins students from the Williams Preparatory School in Dallas, Thursday, April 10, 2008, during events at the First Bloom program to help encourage youth to get involved with conserving America's National Parks. Through the First Bloom program, the National Park Foundation and the National Park Services are joining with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and community groups to connect young people to our national parks.
Mrs. Laura Bush welcomes guests to the East Room of the White House Monday, May 12, 2008, as she congratulates the recipients of the 2008 Preserve America Presidential Awards. The African Burial Ground Project, The Corinth and Alcorn County Mississippi Heritage Tourism Initiative, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program were all honored for their efforts in preserving our national historic sites.

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