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ANNUAL SUMMER BROWN BAG SERIES events this year. Adam Goodheart (above, seated) spoke about 1861: The CivilWar Awakening, and JusnMarn discussed his book, Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Goodheart's work was inspired when he found leers from a man debang which side to support in the early days of the CivilWar, which brought alive a momentwhen peoplewere facedwith T difficult decisions: compromise? choose sides? fight? The book also contains several secons on Congress' failed aempts at compromise as well as a descripon of some of the troops he annual summer brown bag series included two book-signing who bivouacked in the Capitol in 1861. Marn's work is a comprehensive biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, who is perhaps most famous for designing Central Park. However, Olmsted also created the Capitol grounds. Marn highlighted various aspects ofOlmsted's past, including his me as a farmer and his interest in Yosemite, which influenced his thinking about the design of the Capitol grounds The second half of the summer series focused on the Capitol itself. BarbaraWolanin, Curator, Office of the Architect of the Capitol, discussed the 1993 restoraon of the Statue of Freedom, which included the use of a helicopter to remove the statue fromand return it to the top of the Capitol's dome. TomFontana (above),Markeng and CommunicaonsManager, Capitol Visitor Center, spoke about the Capitol Visitor Center fromearly construcon to current planning. USCHS PartnerswithGermanAmericanHeritageMuseumforExhibit InOctober, an exhibit created by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society and the German American HeritageMuseumwas displayed on Capitol Hill beforemoving to themuseum in December. German Americans in the U.S. Congress from1789 to the Presentwill also travel throughout the US and Germany. It focuses on the German Americans in the First Federal and current Congresses. The first Speaker of the House, FrederickMuhlenberg, was German American, as is the current Speaker, John Boehner. 34 THE CAPITOL DOME The first fewpanels of the 14-panel exhibit in the Cannon HouseOffice Building rotunda.Members of Congress and the German parliament aended the official exhibit opening onOctober 3. The exhibitwas also displayed in the soaring Russell SenateOffice Building rotunda. There are plans to create aweb version onwww.uschs.org. WINTER 2011