During the Civil War, Congress passed the 1864 Yosemite Act, which designated the Valley and the Mariposa Grove as the first ...

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The recreation director for The Villages has announced a staffing plan will be implemented at the pools in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown. John Rohan, head of the Recreation Department, unveiled the ...

From white violence to the rise of exclusive swim clubs, people of color have long faced barriers to American swimming pools. In the 1920s, swimmers cool off at the Fairgrounds Pool in Saint Louis, ...

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“No, Dallas is NOT closing all of its pools,” Dallas Park and Recreation Board Member Rudy Karimi wrote on Facebook on Sunday. The post was in response to confusion created by a recently corrected ...

The new releases this weekend are indie with Honey, Don’t!, Relay and Eden flanked by Splitsville, Lurker and Pools in limited release and set to to expand in coming weeks. Neon’s Cannes-premiering ...

Jacobin‘s fall issue, “Borders,” is out now. Follow this link to get a discounted subscription to our beautiful print quarterly. On a sweltering Friday afternoon in Chicago earlier this month, I was ...

Many communities have town beaches, with access restricted to just residents. Providence has six pools, the most of any municipality in the state. Cranston's pool has been closed since the pandemic.

When one thinks of public spaces, the image of a pool rarely comes to mind. Public spaces are the center of civic life, places where most interactions, activities, and behaviors follow strict social ...

NEW YORK — More than 5.2 million aboveground swimming pools sold across the U.S. and Canada over the last two decades are being recalled after nine drowning deaths were reported. The recall covers a ...

About five million above-ground swimming pools from Bestway, Intex, Coleman, and Polygroup have been recalled after nine toddler drowning deaths across the U.S. The recall includes 48-inch and taller ...