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    CAST IRON ARTWORK

    Jul 28, 2020 5 minutes
    With John Banks

    AS SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK chief ranger, Stacy D. Allen wears many hats besides the distinctive, wide-brimmed “flat hat” that has been part of the National Park Service official uniform for almost 100 years.

    The no-nonsense Allen is a historian, a tour guide, a coordinator of visitor relations, and a personnel manager, supervising a staff of about two dozen that maintains the remarkably well-preserved, 5,065-acre battlefield along the Tennessee River.

    But he’s also an art curator. One of his most significant roles—taking care of the more than 600 historical tablets at the rural Tennessee battlefield—is unknown to most of the park’s more than 500,000 annual visitors.

    Those works of art are scattered throughout Shiloh—in ravines; in the aptly named “Lost Field” deep in the woods; in a cemetery surrounded by modern graves; at the edge of a busy state road; and even on an ancient Native-American mound.

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