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iPhone app created for Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. The app is for iPhones, iPads and iPods, and provides audio tours and images of the historic buildings and artwork at the park. A report on Artist-in-Residence programs in the National Park Service was released by Saint-Gaudens NHS and Weir Farm NHS. The new film on Augustus Saint-Gaudens screened on National PBS, December 27, 2009, and also received a 2009 CINE film award. The film is available on DVD and there is a Teacher's Guide. |
Did You Know?
Though considered an American artist, Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland to a French father and Irish mother. In 1848, at the age of six months, he made the month-long voyage to the United States with his parents on the ship Desdamona.