The people who fight the conversion of driving lanes, parking spots & parking lots into anything else are never accused of wanting to freeze a city in amber.


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Marcel Breuer’s Wellfleet Home Needs Rescuing - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2023/08/22/arts/de

A unique treasure of and --but a typical dilemma: important site threatened by decay and threat of dispersal, demolition, development.

Proper education about historic resources is essential.

#architecture #history #historicpreservation

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Across the Country Are Embracing New Roles as Performance Venues | Strings Magazine

stringsmagazine.com/cemeteries

intriguing trend bringing together , , cultural tourism, sociability.

Quite true, as the piece notes, that the new "garden" or "park" cemeteries--emphasizing a different attitude toward death--were C19 tourist attractions. There are accounts of visitors to Boston who were more interested in seeing Mount Auburn Cemetery than Harvard

#cemeteries #music #historicpreservation

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2,000-year-old arch in Caesarea aqueduct collapses; official: 'We sounded the alarm' | The Times of Israel

timesofisrael.com/arch-of-famo

Shameful neglect. And it gets worse:

Ami Shahar, head of the IAA’s Conservation Department, added: “At this point, we feel we must inform the public that Acre’s 15-kilometer-long aqueduct is in an even more precarious state and faces collapse.

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Whenever I am in , I make my pilgrimage to the "Shaw Memorial" (1897) to the white commander and troops of the #Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry (made famous to the general public by the film, "Glory")

Here, seen after its recent restoration

npr.org/2013/07/18/203294923/c

Appropriately, it is the starting point for the Boston Black Trail

nps.gov/boaf/learn/historycult


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#boston #black #civilwar #heritage #history #historicpreservation #publicart #monuments

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Alliance: Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site stonehengealliance.org.uk/

I posted about the disastrous decision to approve the roadway and tunnel yesterday. Here are more details from the organization leading the opposition, and a chance to sign the petition if you have not done so.

#stonehenge #archaeology #heritage #historicpreservation #unesco

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Intriguing crowd-based approach to and : enabling public participation, build public awareness and support

Amateur can help conserve the crumbling Tel Gezer, one brick at a time: Enthusiasts and those curious about are able to aid the Antiquities Authority’s conservation work Thursdays in July using a 3,500-year-old brick-making technique | The Times of Israel

timesofisrael.com/amateur-arch

#historicpreservation #conservation #archaeologists #archaeology #israel

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A Swiss Teen Was Caught Carving Her Name Into the Colosseum, in Yet Another Case of Vandalism at the Amphitheater

news.artnet.com/art-world/swis

Also another case:

"Last month, 27-year-old Ivan Dimitrov, a Bulgarian national living in the United Kingdom, was filmed etching “Ivan + Hayley ’23” into a wall of the Colosseum.

"Dimitrov looks up at one point, sees he’s being filmed, and smiles as the person recording calls him an “asshole” as he walks away"

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The current issue of Civil Engineering magazine is called ”Saving History” and it focuses on historic preservation from the engineer’s perspective. It says that civil engineers have to shift from the “just make it functional” mindset to one includes the aesthetic requirements of historic preservation. Very interesting reading if you’re coming at this from the history side.
asce.org/publications-and-news

#publichistory #historicpreservation

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Preserving Black Churches | National Trust for Historic Preservation

savingplaces.org/black-churche

Applications are due August 23, 2023

See the video on the program and the list of 2023 winners
savingplaces.org/stories/prese

#historicpreservation #africanamerica

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Great presentation by Indiana Landmarks about St. Rita Catholic Church. It was the first parish in Indianapolis to welcome Black Catholics.

youtube.com/watch?v=YT38DY-lNF

#indianapolis #indiana #history #historicpreservation

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The 2022 film, "The Dividing Scar: Massachusetts and the Four Lost Towns," explains the unhealed wound caused by the relocation, featuring recollections of residents and attempts to preserve the memory of the communities

youtube.com/watch?v=sZGMqwtMeL

The 2001 documentary, "Under Quabbin," by contrast, focuses on the remains of structures from the destroyed towns: eerie ruins it calls an underwater Pompeii

youtu.be/QuerxmlFG8k

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#archaeology #historicpreservation

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Wiht the end of my school year, I was able to spend a few days biking the York Heritage Rail Trail in Pennsylvania. I was so pleased to see towns take pride in their history like Glen Rock. Others are really leaning into heritage tourism as part of their economy like New Freedom. I encourage everyone to seek out and support local heritage tourism as they travel this summer.

#histodons #railtrail #historicpreservation #heritagetourism #york

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Contrasting politics at massacre sites

Because the Nazis boasted that they had erased the name of Lidice from history as well as the map, rebuilt the town as both a living community & and memorial

lidice-memorial.cz/en/

France decided to keep Oradour as a ruin & memorial, which now poses challenges

oradour.info/

theguardian.com/world/2013/sep

@histodons @worldwarshistory
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#memory #wwii #czechoslovakia #historicpreservation

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