Radio Story Airs Update on Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

As we learned in a Baltimore Sun article last month, the future of Dorothy Parker and her Memorial Garden is in doubt. What happens if the NAACP leaves Baltimore? Today, National Public Radio aired a short feature story on this matter.

Weekend Edition — Saturday, June 17, 2006 — The remains of writer Dorothy Parker reside at NAACP headquarters in Baltimore. (She donated her estate to the civil-rights group.) Now the NAACP may move to Washington, D.C. Will Parker’s ashes make the trip? Parker biographer Marion Meade and John Ydstie discuss the possibilities.

You can listen to the story here (you need to have installed either Windows Media Player or RealAudio).

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