They are part of a lost legacy of black radical activism that has strong roots in Britain.
Once the cathedral of technology, it is now on a course to rebuild that lost legacy, and even just last week was nominated as the U.S. entry for the 2024 Olympics.
And that is quite apart from the lost legacy for our children as we burn their precious resources for the sake of short-term savings and profits.
No matter what happens, the members of Save Washington Street are performing the service of calling attention to the lost legacy of Little Syria.
In his book, Rocket Girl, George D Morgan tells the story of his mother's journey from North Dakota farm girl to brilliant scientist whose obscure, yet crucial, contributions to the development of a new rocket fuel powered the country's first satellite, Explorer 1. Mr Morgan spoke to the BBC about his mother's lost legacy and the complex nature of fame.
The key point is that I no longer have the ability to nap at will — to recover, in nickels of unconsciousness, a lost hypnotic legacy.
Strange, unexplainable, head-scratching events have surrounded this team for months, beginning almost from the moment the Indians rediscovered a lost piece of Chapman's legacy.
But the legacy of a lost vote is that the bar for doing so has become higher—and the questions about the country's strategic priorities a lot more searching.
All one can do is make a choice between trying to hide them, like the unseemly legacy of a lost war, or displaying them proudly like the scars of a battle still being fought.
Now, it seemed, he understood that even a Reaganesque triumph wouldn't suddenly erase the effect of 40 years of exploiting peoples' darkest fears or ignoring their legitimate anxieties, the twisted and bipartisan legacy of a lost political generation.
