The nation's capital may pretty soon have yet another monument.The nation's capital may pretty soon have yet another monument. The board of the Names plot the San Francisco group that maintains the AIDS quilt, has vot to incline its offices to Washington, DC shortly after the millennium. The nonprofit organization has already begun scouting locations big enough to store and display the quilt, which has grown to 52 tons of patchwork, as well as to house its executive offices. "My position is that, logistically, we belong in the nation's capital," executive director Andy Ilves told the San Francisco Examiner. "It's the main magnet to visitors from all through the globe. None of us has any interest in having the quilt be this musty, dusty relic stored forward shelves. It's intended to be shown in a bright, interactive environment." COPYRIGHT 1998 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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