Inside Story, August 10, 2025

6abc Studios (WPVI) -- Sarah Bloomquist talks to Lynda Kellam. She is a local data librarian and a founding member of the Data Rescue Project and Save Our Signs campaign for National Parks.

The Trump administration is considering removing or covering up NPS exhibits considered "disparaging" to people past or present.

This includes more than a dozen displays at the President's House on Independence Mall, where President George Washington lived and enslaved nine people. The Edgar Allan Poe House is also under review.

The Secretary of the Interior is asking Americans to report signs in the parks that could be deemed "inappropriate."

By August 18th, all parks will receive further instructions, and by September 17th, the exhibits could be gone.

Lynda Kellam is among a group of volunteer preservationists working to "Save Our Signs"

Sarah talked to Ms. Kellam about the campaign, and what they are asking ordinary citizens who visit the parks to do to help preserve this history should those displays be removed in mid-September.

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