Lansing lunchers savor historical inauguration

LANSING — At Troppo restaurant, a popular meeting speck a block from the state Capitol, ... preservation tour guide. She recalled a trip to Kenya in 2008, where she saw Masai villagers wearing homemade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:41:25

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Nottingham: Castle Rock Beers

Nottingham was my first stop in the Midlands. This is an old city: the first recorded settlement was in 868, ... food, clean, great location in The Lace Market neighborhood), The Salvation (a historic old building ... mentioned that it was useful in training lager drinkers…  A heavier beer is the Preservation (4.4 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 11:54:30

Two Positive Developments Land the World Trade Center Building Effort Some Needed Praise

As we spoke about big construction slowing to a crawl in New York yesterday, ... " used by people escaping the two buildings, will be worked into the memorial and were just moved ... it preserved in some way. One group put it on a list of the nation's most endangered historic places [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 14:01:10

Mayor Bloomberg Loves Freelancers, Hates the Marx Brothers?

This post mixes two concerns. First, yesterday I received an email from the Freelancers Union:Dear Members,Today in his State of the City address, ... of the Landmarks Preservation Commisison, Robert B. Tierney. (I've often said my piece about him -- click here ... the Carnegie Hill Historic District one block -- just one block [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:34:00

In Which I Achieve Historic Proportions

And of course I said "yes":Dear M.J. Murphy,I am contacting you today on behalf of Library and Archives Canada regarding the archiving of your blog, ... and, for the purposes of preservation, it now allows LAC to collect a representative sample of Canadian web sites ... you will recognize the historical value of a comprehensive collection of Canadian [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:09:00

The True Miracle of the Day: The Peaceful Transfer of Power

By Peter Roff Conservative Commentator/Former Senior Political Writer for United Press International Inauguration Day 2009 is as important as ... observed, an historic day, full of meaning for people all across the world.  That a mere half-century ... conception. The preservation of this democracy has come at great cost.  The sons and daughters [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:27:43

The US as a corporation

I know it's churlish of me to point this out on this historic day, but in case you didn't notice ( ... security or gross national happiness, but about creation or preservation of financial wealth. People [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 21:56:30

Serenbe, Luxe Conservation Community

Serenbe is located in Palmetto, Georgia, about 30-45 minutes southwest of Atlanta. The 900 acre community will preserve 70% of it's land and eventual plans include about 600 homes ... and is often inspired by historical buildings. There's a Dwell Home being built (see below), and the above [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 06:17:34

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone The trendless market continues plodding along ... those historic weeks), it's stunning that we're still grinding along at the same level. I've tinted ... satisfies the capital preservation (and occasional jumps in equity value) that I seek, even though [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:38:09

Planning Commish Joins the CAMP Dogpile

Ouch. Joining the Landmarks and Preservation Board and a host of local NIMBYS, the city Planning Commission has expressed " ... "too stark of a contrast" to nearby historic buildings, but the developments would also (allegedly [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 16:42:59

“The Audacity of Hope” in God’s Sovereignty

President-Elect Barack Obama carries a warm place in his heart for Abraham Lincoln ... his own historic path in the White House. Obama certainly picked a worthy man. Faced with this nation’ ... for the ending of slavery and the preservation of the Union. Our President-Elect, too, faces great (though lesser [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:17:26

Tea and Crumpets Anyone?

My good friend, Cee Cee Dupps, who you are all acquainted with by now, (if not scroll to the next post) asked me to participate in a fundraiser for the Eureka Springs Preservation Society. Well, how ... , the closet is now clean! LOOK! There is even extra room now! The event will be held at the historic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:37:05

Evolutionary Bicentennial

HARLES DARWIN is 200 this year and his great work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, turns 150. To mark the occasion ... literalist - that asserted, contrary to the teachings of historic Christianity - that every word [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:53:01

Will The City’s Modern Architecture Masterpieces Be Destroyed?

The start of the City’s modern preservation movement can be traced back to one date: August 19th, 1959. That’s the date that demolition started on Davis Hall, the historic structure that stood ... countless buildings from the bulldozer. However, that seems to be changing.  Many masterpieces [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:29:06

Locomotive Breadth

In reply to The Squeaky Wheel: 1924: What amazes me most about old steam locomotives like this is their size and their massive construction: ... of preservation: the two or three locos stand idle on some length of dead track, outdoors, exposed to rain, sun ... . It was a pity - those locos are not only beautiful, they are also historical, since they used [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:09:51

Teaching Great Students IV: Carson’s Lincoln Thesis

Yes, I am really behind in my AP US History course; however, I did miss three weeks due to illness last year and managed to complete the course ... to be characterized as a historical figure: A man that saved the union…. Thanks to popular myths designed ... that Lincoln would have left slavery intact if it meant national preservation; however, Richard [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:36:53

How to spend $825 billion

By Kate Sheppard Enviros are heartened by much of what they see in the newly released summary of the House's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ... buildings to make them more energy efficient." Another section of the bill aims to "modernize roads ... for activities supported by other economic recovery funds, such as retrofitting of buildings, green [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:05:15

Restore some forests to their precolonial condition

Note: yours truly in the Main Stream Media. Special thanks to Jack Wilson, Editorial Page Editor, The Register-Guard. Restore some ... scientists agree by overwhelming consensus that fuels cause fires. Further, without forest restoration ... that they contain — to fire and insects. … Inaction is a much more risky option for a variety of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:34:06

Loose Lips Daily—Is Nickles the New Cheney?

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—What was said on the floor of the Senate yesterday about the voting rights bill? Check out our voting-rights liveblog! D.C. Wire on same [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:35:44

Here’s to Our Treasures

North Carolina's Cupola House is just one of 40 preservation projects to receive a Save America's Treasure challenge grant ( ... will be raising a glass to more than just the New Year – they are among a select group of historic ... to an impressive and diverse list of nationally significant projects. While the historic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 16:16:38

New England town struggles to preserve fishing (AP)

GLOUCESTER, Mass. – When Arthur would probably be of little Sawyer was a teenager, fishing interest to tourists ... fishing last year with restoration money of Sawyer's youth will probably set aside by natural gas companies never return to this historic, building terminals in nearby centuries-old New England port [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:02:42

Calvin Klein Battles Preservation Board and Neighbor Over Design of His Future Southampton Home

One of the reasons you probably chosen to not own an oceanfront house in the Hamptons is because it sounds like a major ... it all the more, as he's in the middle of an ongoing back and forth with the Southampton Village's Board of Historic ... neighbor Mr. William J. Williams Jr. wrote that the proposed new buildings do not fit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 11:01:38

Interview with Dr Jamie Gilardi, Executive Director of the World Parrot Trust

As we mentioned in yesterday’s intro post to ‘Parrot Month’ the World Parrot Trust’s website states that almost a third of all parrot species are threatened - that’s with extinction, not noise abatement orders or their neighbours by the way! When it came to putting this theme together I relied quite heavily on the World Parrot Trust (WPT) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 07:00:55

Documenting Chicago's Lakefront: An Interview with Geoffrey Baer

Geoffrey Baer is writer, producer and narrator for several documentaries taking viewers on tours of Chicago's neighborhoods and characters. He sat down with GB to discuss his most recent program, "Chicago's Lakefront." We've all been watching your documentaries for several years now and enjoying the great deal of knowledge you posses about [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 06:10:50

802 Salmon on the Home Stretch

On Thursday night, Preservation Dallas is hosting a preview of 802 Salmon, which, when I was over there this morning, was a veritable vortex of activity.  802 Salmon, you’ll recall, is intended as a model project: how to take a modest but historical (1926) bungalow and rehab it in a way that is both energy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:09:06

Why It Burns

1874, Castle Creek Valley, South DakotaSame location, 1973In nature, as in human life, it’s hard to pin an event on a single cause.A half-degree change in average annual temperature translates into a winter warm enough to let a particular beetle survive from one year to the next [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:55:00

Mrs. Laura Bush Designates Tipp City a Preserve America Community

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The City of Tipp City was recently honored when First Lady Laura Bush, Honorary Chair of the Preserve America initiative, ... , and other federal support, provides strong incentives for continued preservation of our cultural ... of our nation’s historic past for visitors, neighbors, and, most importantly, for children.” Mayor Tim [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:19:16

Be the Bill

No Apple Store for D.C. Anytime Soon” Morning all. LL’s feeling pretty good after Georgetown’s 74-63 road dismantling of UConn in Hartford last night. PAGING COLBY KING—WaPo’s Robert Pierre takes a look at Vincent Schiraldi’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services and his “evolving, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 21:04:50

South Beach Sight Seeing: Art Deco Landmarks

One of my favorite things to do when visiting a new city is walk along the streets with my camera pointed at the sky ... walking tour through the Art Deco Historic District should include a look at (and several pictures of) these buildings: The Carlyle Hotel - this art deco building has been featured in many films [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:30:42

The WTO and American economic diplomacy under Obama

Author: Gary Hawke The media comment, ‘Obama and trade: an alarm sounds’, which Jagdish Bhagwati published on 8 January 2009, ... specifically argues for preservation of WTO subsidy rules in whatever assistance is given to the US car ... wide notion of ‘trade-related’ barriers on the other. The historical evolution of the agenda of GATT [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:00:18

Update on 980 Madison Avenue Proposal

Update on 980 Madison Avenue Proposal Jan 20th, 2009 Many of our readers have been following Sir Norman Foster’s proposal for an addition above ... or not the project team will return with a revised plan or if any restoration of the existing building ... was too overwhelming to the existing building and inappropriate to the character of the Upper [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:28:35

Former prison to be razed

The historic Chennai Central Prison, in the heart of the city opposite Chennai Central Station, is awaiting the bulldozer ... t have much historical significance except for some freedom fighters who have been inmates here. The dilapidated condition of the prison rules out any preservation work. Moreover, the land will be used [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:20:46

AFI Lists 2008's Moments of Significance

AFI Lists 2008's Moments of Significance The American Film Institute has been issuing a variety of year’s best lists and over the weekend, ... , education, preservation, government or other areas that impact the art film, television and digital media ... Provide a Global Oracle for America's Presidential Race America's historic presidential race [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:00:55

Highlights of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Here are some highlights of  Obama’s so called “economic stimulus” package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: By the way, ... and apply the “stimulus” label to their spending plans, clever bastards. $3.836 billion for rural ... and historic importance, rehabilitation of abandoned mines and oil fields, and environmental cleanup projects [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:18:14

Landmark shield urged for St. Boniface

Architect Scott Rappe, chair of EVA's Planning, Preservation & Development Committee, Chair, sent this statement on Jan. 15 to 27th Ward Ald ... the preservation, restoration and reuse of St. Boniface Church and rectory and the reconstruction if the dismantled school facade and requests that the City of Chicago recognize their historical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:03:29

World Trade Center Model to Get New Home

... the world of the tragedy that occurred on 9/11. Like historic photographs, drawings and scrapbooks, architectural records are an important part of America’s historic legacy. They help trace [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:13:18

SurveyLA Looks to the Past to Preserve Los Angeles’ Future

The Los Angeles Conservancy, one of our local partners in Southern California, has undertaken an epic endeavor, a project known as SurveyLA, which will look at all of the historic resources in the city. This effort, the largest ... historic resources throughout Los Angeles - including ornate historic theaters, Modernist commercial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:00:13

City College Settles Chinatown Campus Lawsuits

SAN FRANCISCO — The City College of San Francisco last week settled lawsuits filed by two groups that opposed construction of the new Chinatown/North Beach campus, ending a one-year dispute. At a Dec. 10 meeting, the CCSF ... alleged the new campus design was not compatible with buildings in the nearby Jackson Square Historic [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:19:04

Michelle Obama Redecorates The White House

Obama Chic: Balancing the White House Checkbook. The Obamas will need to consider a tight budget when they transform the White House residence into ... to their new home, but the decorating won't stop there. The Obamas have chosen celebrity designer Michael ... for the repair and restoration of the White House.That amount, intended to ensure the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 09:53:00

My Historic Washington: Southwest

For some reason, I always knew I wanted to live in Washington, D.C ... . Its a wonderful neighborhood, designed and developed in the 1920s, with lots of families and beautiful historic ... the more traditional historic districts like Logan Circle and Capitol Hill, I was drawn to Southwest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:37:17

A New Commission, a New Historic Power Struggle

As if there wasn't enough red tape already, the city has somehow found it in its budget to add a new commission to the fray. The Historic Preservation Commission is likely to take power away from the Planning Commission and cut into the say of the Landmark Preservation Advisory Board, all at the cost of seven A-list [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 23:00:02

Perino Confused About Environmentalists’ Objections To Drilling On Federal Lands

Perino Confused About Environmentalists’ Objections To Drilling On Federal Lands By Ryan Powers on Dec 19th, 2008 at 6: ... out against the sale. He noted the lands’ significant historical value and criticized the Bush ... the detrimental effects drilling would have. Indeed, the National Trust for Historic Preservation filed suit [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 23:20:54

Lincoln Sculpture Model is En Route to Washington

... . On loan from Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will be the six-foot high plaster final model of the statue. This is only [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:56:49

ECOS & NAST Settle With CalTrans

The following press release from ECOS was released on January 16th, 2009.  Several SOCA and Preservation Roundtable members participated in NAST ... of new construction jobs for our region.  The agreement:   clears the way for Caltrans to start construction this year on new HOV lanes on Highway 50 from Sunrise Boulevard to Watt Avenue; commits [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:01:16

2/4 Station Road - Demolition

It was with great regret that the residents association learnt of the demolition of the cottages at 2-4 Station Road ... Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) is aware that two historic buildings previously the subject ... to protect historic buildings which are in danger of demolition or major alteration. For a period [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:46:15

Sting brings music, eco-message to Sundance fest

Sting brings music, eco-message to Sundance fest Sting drew cheers with an impromptu jam session at the Sundance Film Festival, ... calls for 'new Declaration of Independence' Bon Jovi stops by Lockhart's house Journalist parties duke ... scheme Jay-Z plans Obama blowout at Warner Theatre Concert highlights big star power [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:44:31

Historic Warren church steeple slated for restoration

Historic Warren church steeple slated for restoration by Jim Lockwood/The Star-Ledger Thursday January 01, 2009, 10:00 AM Two years ago, ... and historic preservation, was one of several provided to historic restoration efforts in the county. MATT ... a pair of the corner spires atop the historic wooden bell tower of St. Luke's Episcopal Church [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 16:56:32

RDEIR: ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING, IMPACTS, AND MITIGATION MEASURES (4.0)

ABSTRACT: Selected sections of Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures (4.0) related to LAND USE AND PLANNING (4.4) and PARKS AND RECREATION (4.5) are presented. Other sections which have less-than-significant levels of significant environmental impacts after mitigation, including AESTHETICS (4.1), BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES (4.2) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:48:00

Anti-monument leaders appointed to monument council

Governor Fitial has recommended that Benigno Sablan, Jack Villagomez and Sylvan Igisomar be named to the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument Advisory Council. I've got some thoughts on that. First of all, Governor Fitial does not get to choose who goes on this council. He gets to make "recommendations [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:45:33

2009 Season Has a New Look at Westport Country Playhouse

By PAT BLAUFUSS Westport Country Playhouse incoming artistic director Mark Lamos and managing director Michael Ross announce a new look to the 2009 ... to the family's beachside vacation home, all the family plans crumble as love affairs and family secrets explode.  Westport favorite John Tillinger will direct. Third in the series will now be the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:37:08

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