<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3eb658d3-b5d2-4e93-98c4-c1b863a0c64d/3A00A1F3-52DE-4267-AEAD-BCB0943279F6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/civil_war_artifacts_find_a_new.html" href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/civil_war_artifacts_find_a_new.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.cleveland.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/civil_war_artifacts_find_a_new.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.cleveland.com/img/E5FC24B0-CABC-44E0-92B2-918580E898BE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/civil_war_artifacts_find_a_new.html">For 104 years, Cleveland's beloved Soldiers and Sailors Monument has doubled as a crammed Civil War museum. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/civil_war_artifacts_find_a_new.html"><P>The Public Square fixture closed in June for interior renovations, but its leaders opened a slightly less crammed museum recently in 200 Public Square, the former BP Tower, and put many relics on display for the first time in memory. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/civil_war_artifacts_find_a_new.html">The monument, owned by Cuyahoga County, contains a wealth of wartime symbols and figures, historic and fictional, military and civilian, black and white, male and female, North and South, human and animal. On top, a statue of Lady Liberty rises 125 feet above the Square. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/civil_war_artifacts_find_a_new.html"><P>The monument is undergoing several years' worth of interior and exterior renovations, estimated to cost $1.7 million in county, state and private funds. The monument also has hired an executive director and a curator. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/civil_war_artifacts_find_a_new.html">Among many other tasks, workers plan to remove the stained-glass windows Monday for renovations expected to take four months.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A00A1F3-52DE-4267-AEAD-BCB0943279F6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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