Las Playas Intaglio (U.S. - Mexico border)

Douglas Burgum offered an apology

(Secy. of INTERIOR for Trump - Vance administration)

for bulldozing an ancient site,

calling it a "Series of Mistakes"

NPR / WJZZ coverage of story

One mile Fun Run -- Buchanan MI -- also 5K, 10K Saturday morning mid-May 2026 - The Commons

Run Signup dot-com

$25 for the Fun - Run, 1 Mile, 5K

also 10K run -- 9 a.m. - Noon

Saturday May 16, 2026

at Buchanan Common, 131 S. Oak Street,

Buchanan, MI 49107

10 a.m. Saturday 16th : Southwest Michigan Record Show returns for 2026 (Berrien County, MI) - Benton Harbor campus LMC

 Grand Upton Hall,

Mendel Center

Benton Harbor, MI

Lake Michigan College

welcomes the

2026

SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

Record Show (4th annual)

25 vendors from 4 states

vinyl records,

CDs

Cassettes,

record supplies

music memorabilia

Free ADMISSION from

10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturday May 16, 2026

Buchanan Farmers Market (Southern Berrien County, Michigan)

Saturday May 16, 2026

8 a.m.

until

1 p.m.

all daytime activities free to the public

at THE COMMON

LIVE MUSIC

1Adam12 begins at 12 noon

Trump's Vanity project of sculptures -- now called "American Heroes" after earlier odd inclusions of non-American accomplished folks he admired/idolized

 { subscription required }

nytimes.com/ May 2, 2026

"Trump's Vision for

D.C. / Potomac Park 'Garden

of Heroes Statues' 

Keeps Getting Bigger and 

Higher in Cost for Taxpayers . . .

National Garden of American Heroes Theme Park -- POLITICO discussion June 1, 2025 -- Statues D.C.

 According to investigators at POLITICO dot-com

Federal officials have yet to assign statues to sculptors --

the plan is 250 by July 4, 2026 (250th birthday

of Declaration of Independence) . . .

money up front is $34 million --

Deadline July 1 this year is only 368 in advance . . .

commissions are $250,000 per statue

__________________________________________

in contrast, the State of Arkansas spent $750,000

for replacement statuary for the Capitol in D.C.

Singer JOHNNY CASH and Civil Rights activist

DAISY BATES

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The only site thus far offered was

near Mt. Rushmore (Keystone, 3 miles away). SD

$40 million for statuary -- ART NEWS online article (when did it get a go-ahead?)

Trump National Garden of American Heroes

-- included in line-item for Omnibus bill,

Senate-House reconciliation -- 3 p.m. July 3, 2025

on the floor of the House of Representatives

DETAILS on the sculptures

artnews.com/art-news/news/president-trumps-budget-bill-includes-40-m-for-statues-

at-new-national-garden-of-heroes-1234746576/