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Text from article: Some days no one turns up for a tour at all. Most days there are only a few, including those curious about all the reports of ruin. When people do come, what do they see? In the Opera House, which no longer has an opera, there is an empty orchestra pit scattered with trash. On the grand terrace overlooking the Potomac River, the flower beds are wilting and weedy. In the corridors and lounges, artwork has disappeared. And yet Sandy Weiswasser, a retired sixth grade teacher who for 18 years has given hundreds of people free tours of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, keeps reporting for duty. In a dogged demonstration of love and loyalty for an institution that has elevated life for her and millions of visitors, she still arrives every Monday for her tour day, knowing she may soon find the doors locked. “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser, 87, said. “Now it’s a black hole.”
Text from article: Some days no one turns up for a tour at all. Most days there are only a few, including those curious about all the reports of ruin. When people do come, what do they see? In the Opera House, which no longer has an opera, there is an empty orchestra pit scattered with trash. On the grand terrace overlooking the Potomac River, the flower beds are wilting and weedy. In the corridors and lounges, artwork has disappeared. And yet Sandy Weiswasser, a retired sixth grade teacher who for 18 years has given hundreds of people free tours of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, keeps reporting for duty. In a dogged demonstration of love and loyalty for an institution that has elevated life for her and millions of visitors, she still arrives every Monday for her tour day, knowing she may soon find the doors locked. “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser, 87, said. “Now it’s a black hole.”
Text from article: Some days no one turns up for a tour at all. Most days there are only a few, including those curious about all the reports of ruin. When people do come, what do they see? In the Opera House, which no longer has an opera, there is an empty orchestra pit scattered with trash. On the grand terrace overlooking the Potomac River, the flower beds are wilting and weedy. In the corridors and lounges, artwork has disappeared. And yet Sandy Weiswasser, a retired sixth grade teacher who for 18 years has given hundreds of people free tours of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, keeps reporting for duty. In a dogged demonstration of love and loyalty for an institution that has elevated life for her and millions of visitors, she still arrives every Monday for her tour day, knowing she may soon find the doors locked. “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser, 87, said. “Now it’s a black hole.”
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Headline and photo with caption. Headline: Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service The decision to suspend tours came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center. Photo: The front of the Kennedy Center. The signage is still covered by blue and white tarps so that no one can see that Trump's name has been removed. Caption: The Kennedy Center in Washington in June. It has now ended free public tours of the facility.Credit...Jared Soares for The New York Times
Headline and photo with caption. Headline: Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service The decision to suspend tours came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center. Photo: The front of the Kennedy Center. The signage is still covered by blue and white tarps so that no one can see that Trump's name has been removed. Caption: The Kennedy Center in Washington in June. It has now ended free public tours of the facility.Credit...Jared Soares for The New York Times
Headline and photo with caption. Headline: Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service The decision to suspend tours came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center. Photo: The front of the Kennedy Center. The signage is still covered by blue and white tarps so that no one can see that Trump's name has been removed. Caption: The Kennedy Center in Washington in June. It has now ended free public tours of the facility.Credit...Jared Soares for The New York Times
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Text from article: Sandy Weiswasser, 87, a retired teacher and volunteer who has been guiding visitors through the center for 18 years, was profiled in a Times article on the center, published on Monday. “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser was quoted as saying. “Now it’s a black hole.” Reached on Thursday, she declined to comment. Last year, Mr. Trump removed the Kennedy Center’s leadership, cut its programming and installed a handpicked board that had his name drilled into the building front. A court ordered the name removed last month. Audiences, performers and visitors have fled from the center, which has lost about 90 percent of its staff and, for now, 100 percent of its paying audience.
Text from article: Sandy Weiswasser, 87, a retired teacher and volunteer who has been guiding visitors through the center for 18 years, was profiled in a Times article on the center, published on Monday. “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser was quoted as saying. “Now it’s a black hole.” Reached on Thursday, she declined to comment. Last year, Mr. Trump removed the Kennedy Center’s leadership, cut its programming and installed a handpicked board that had his name drilled into the building front. A court ordered the name removed last month. Audiences, performers and visitors have fled from the center, which has lost about 90 percent of its staff and, for now, 100 percent of its paying audience.
Text from article: Sandy Weiswasser, 87, a retired teacher and volunteer who has been guiding visitors through the center for 18 years, was profiled in a Times article on the center, published on Monday. “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser was quoted as saying. “Now it’s a black hole.” Reached on Thursday, she declined to comment. Last year, Mr. Trump removed the Kennedy Center’s leadership, cut its programming and installed a handpicked board that had his name drilled into the building front. A court ordered the name removed last month. Audiences, performers and visitors have fled from the center, which has lost about 90 percent of its staff and, for now, 100 percent of its paying audience.
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Headline and photo with caption. Headline: Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service The decision to suspend tours came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center. Photo: The front of the Kennedy Center. The signage is still covered by blue and white tarps so that no one can see that Trump's name has been removed. Caption: The Kennedy Center in Washington in June. It has now ended free public tours of the facility.Credit...Jared Soares for The New York Times
Headline and photo with caption. Headline: Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service The decision to suspend tours came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center. Photo: The front of the Kennedy Center. The signage is still covered by blue and white tarps so that no one can see that Trump's name has been removed. Caption: The Kennedy Center in Washington in June. It has now ended free public tours of the facility.Credit...Jared Soares for The New York Times
Headline and photo with caption. Headline: Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service The decision to suspend tours came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center. Photo: The front of the Kennedy Center. The signage is still covered by blue and white tarps so that no one can see that Trump's name has been removed. Caption: The Kennedy Center in Washington in June. It has now ended free public tours of the facility.Credit...Jared Soares for The New York Times
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