 w:Sonny Bono Memorial Park in Washington D.C. Image by Nelson Pavlosky, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 |
Sonny ParksSonny Bono Memorial Park Sonny Bono Memorial Park Park in Washington, D.C., U.S. Sonny Bono Memorial Park is a public park in Washington, D.C., at the intersection of 20th Street NW, New Hampshire Avenue NW, and O Street NW, near Dupont Circle. It is named for entertainer and politician, Sonny Bono, who died in a skiing accident in 1998. The park was established later that year by Bono family friend, Geary Simon, a local real estate developer. He approached the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation's Adopt-a-Park program and paid over $25,000 of his own money to revitalize an unused 800-square-foot (74 m2) triangle of grass on a traffic island. His improvements to the park included plumbing, landscaping,… (Source: Wikipedia)
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