found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 8, 2020(in obituary dated Jan. 7, 2020: James Goode; James M. Goode, a Smithsonian Institution historian and author who wrote books about the statues and architecture of Washington, specializing in the out-of-the-way, the lesser-known, the trivial, the no-longer extant and the never-heard-of, died Dec. 12 in the District [of Columbia]. He was 80. James Moore Goode was born Sept. 17, 1939, in Statesville, N.C. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1964 and received a master's degree from the University of Virginia in 1966. He came to the Washington area in 1966 as a teacher of American history at George Mason University, then from 1968 to 1970 was a reference librarian at the Library of Congress. From 1970 to 1987, he was a Smithsonian Institution staffer who organized exhibits and lectures, gave walking tours and wrote books. He resigned in 1988 to work on a doctoral degree in American studies, which he received from George Washington University in 1995)
