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Memorials in Sligo Park

Memory is a man's real possession.
In nothing else is he rich.

Alexander Smith

Beanie

Bench plaque at Brunett and Sligo Creek Parkway, placed by a nearby relative.
The bench overlooks a baseball field and Sligo Creek Park.

Beanie's sister writes, "My sister, 'Beanie', and I, 'Miller' had special nicknames we always used for each other since we were little kids. She was Beanie since she was as skinny as a beanpole and I was Miller-killer-diller since I was a bit gutsy and a tomboy. She passed away suddenly in 1997 and a bench nearby in the park was a wonderful way to visit her everyday on my park walks. The saying on the plaque is what she wrote to me in her Christmas card in 1990,
which showed two young sisters peeking in awe at the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.
I still miss her and the wonderful way she looked at things everyday."

Baha'i Martyrs

A plaque placed in 1983 across from the Golf Course, in front of a handsome swamp cypress tree slightly upstream from the Soccer Field bridge. The tree is one of ten or so planted by the Park in perhaps the 1950s.

The Ayatollah Khomeini figured frequently in newspapers in 1983, when this plaque was placed. Khomeini was a fundamentalist Muslim who tolerated only Islam in Iran. The Baha'i Faith had been founded in Iran in 1844, and in 1986 about 350,000 Bahais lived in the country, making it the largest minority religion. A few headlines from the Washington Post printed between 1982 and 1984 show why 10,000 Iranis sought asylum abroad in a twenty-year period.

Tehran executes 8 Bahias as spies
Charging persecution in Iran, Bahais again ask UN for Help.
Reagan decries persecution of Bahais in Iran
Wearied by Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution and the debilitating war with Iraq, Iranians are slipping across the Pakistani border in increasing numbers ...

The St. Petersburg Times in Florida reported thousands of Bahais were dismissed from Iranian government jobs in the early 1980s. Bahia marriages were unrecognized in Iran, so that children were illegitimate and denied inheritance rights.

Several Baha'i Faith Centers exist in the Washington area.

JoAnn Peregoy

Bench plaque at the playground above Forest Glen Road, between the Trail and Dameron Drive.

JoAnn formerly resided on Tilton Drive. All three of her children attended the Kensington Day Care
adjacent to the park area and JoAnn spent much time there with her husband and the children.
At the time there were no benches at the park for parents to sit on while the children played.
JoAnn died from colon cancer when she was in her thirties. She was cared for by the Holy Cross Hospice.
Her neighbors took up the collection and the bench was donated by the Hospital, friends and neighbors.

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