Salt Lake City recently became the first city in the nation to dedicate a "First Amendment Park." Located on the East side of the County complex (at the corner of State and 2100 South), the park features a speech podium and a stone monument with the First Amendment engraved as the background. Salt Lake Commissioner Mike Stewart told about 300 people attending the dedication that the free speech park will serve the same purposes as London's Hyde Park and The Boston Common: a place where citizens can feely speak their minds. "First Amendment Park" is a project of the Thomas Jefferson Center of Free Expression, Charlottesville, Virginia, which hopes to erect similar parks around the nation