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At the western end of the National Mall, the Washington Monument towers over our country’s capital. The 555-foot obelisk—a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramid-shaped top—was built to ...

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Shlain, an artist, film-maker and author from the Bay Area, sought a more tactile form of storytelling in 2020, when she roamed the Muir Woods National Monument’s ancient redwoods with renewed ...