{"id":314033,"date":"2025-10-18T18:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314033\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T18:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:22:29","slug":"john-henry-wins-award-for-farrington-field-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314033\/","title":{"rendered":"John Henry Wins Award for Farrington Field Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Fort Worth Magazine\u00a0writer and editor John Henry was recognized on Thursday evening by Historic Fort Worth Inc. with a Preservation Achievement Award for journalism advocacy\u00a0for his ongoing work chronicling and advocating for one of the city\u2019s most storied landmarks \u2014 Farrington Field.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the magazine\u2019s cover story was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fwtx.com\/culture\/a-love-letter-to-farrington-field\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cA Love Letter to a Stadium: Save It and They Will Come.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Henry, the art deco stadium on the corner of University Drive and Lancaster Avenue isn\u2019t just a sports venue. It\u2019s a civic monument.<\/p>\n<p>Farrington Field is more than steel and stone, wrote Henry, who is the Executive Editor of sister publication\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (None)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth Inc.<\/a>\u00a0Rather, it\u2019s a reflection of Fort Worth\u2019s soul \u2014 its schools, its families, its neighborhoods, and its sense of continuity.<\/p>\n<p>Farrington Field, Henry wrote, is \u201cthe binding thread in the story of Fort Worth in the last 100 years,\u201d a place that unites the city across age, neighborhood, and background.<\/p>\n<p>Henry\u2019s deep dive into the stadium\u2019s history began years ago, inspired by an imagined visit from Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who once delivered a fiery speech there in 1952. That vision led Henry to explore the stadium\u2019s origins, tracing them back to athletic director E.S. Farrington, whose 1930s dream of a state-of-the-art facility became reality through determination and Works Progress Administration funding.<\/p>\n<p>Henry was nominated for the award by Farrington\u2019s grandson, Evan S. Farrington III.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last 15 years, John has demonstrated a strong and consistent commitment to keeping the legacy of Farrington Field alive in the community mind of Fort Worth,\u201d Farrington wrote in his nomination letter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the same issue, Henry authored \u201cThe Case for Keeping Things,\u201d a commentary on the value of preserving a city\u2019s historic edifices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever before have I seen the reason supporting historic preservation stated more clearly and more meaningfully,\u201d Farrington wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Henry\u2019s research culminated in an expansive narrative linking the stadium\u2019s past to present preservation efforts. When the Fort Worth ISD proposed selling the property, Henry\u2019s reporting helped galvanize public awareness and support. Through the efforts of Historic Fort Worth and allies such as E.S. Farrington\u2019s grandson, the stadium was added to the National Register of Historic Places and is now part of a $55 million plan for restoration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld places matter because they\u2019re ours,\u201d Henry says. \u201cPreserving them reminds us who we are and what kind of city we want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Magazine\u00a0writer and editor John Henry was recognized on Thursday evening by Historic Fort Worth Inc. with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":314034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[158101,5229,12043,5800,71241,3095,7371,7372,153764,71242,13814,35556,13813,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-314033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arts-and-culture","11":"tag-awards","12":"tag-farrington-field","13":"tag-features","14":"tag-fort-worth","15":"tag-fortworth","16":"tag-historic-landmark","17":"tag-historic-place","18":"tag-john-henry","19":"tag-longform","20":"tag-people-of-influence","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-top-story","23":"tag-tx","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115396565111254321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}