The Interior Museum is the first to exhibit David Granahan’s complete set of ten original watercolors depicting the March.
His paintings capture the determination of the marchers surrounded by the national monuments. Pictured above is "Afternoon Beside the Reflecting Pool."

Witness to History:
The March on Washington Exhibit
Opens to Public on July 20, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of the Interior Museum will open the exhibit Witness to History: The March on Washington on July 20, 2007. This exhibit is free and open to the public.

On a hot and muggy August 28 in 1963 hundreds of thousands of American people marched around the National Mall to protest for civil rights, desegregation and federal programs to end poverty. This was the great March on Washington which ended that afternoon with the “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. David M. Granahan, an employee of the Department of Agriculture, took the day off to document the marchers and he captured the activities with his watercolor and ink sketches. " more

• Interior Museum Website

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined Mrs. Laura Bush to announce the first Preserve America Grants for 2007. Rep. Michael Turner of Ohio, co-chair of the Congressional Historic Preservation Caucus and John L. Nau III, Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation also accompanied Mrs. Bush at the event.

Mrs. Laura Bush Announces
First 2007 Preserve America
Grant Recipients, New Communities

Washington, D.C.— In a ceremony on Capitol Hill, Mrs. Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States and Honorary Chair of Preserve America, announced the first 43 Preserve America Grants for 2007 totaling nearly $2.6 million and acknowledged 20 new Preserve America Communities that have brought the national total to 501 in all 50 states and one U.S. territory. Mrs. Bush commended the efforts of two important preservation initiatives by announcing the “Preserve America and Save America’s Treasures Act.” more

• Read Mrs. Bush's Remarks

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