Preservation in Pink is a newsletter and a daily blog. It is primarily a forum to discuss historic preservation, academically and casually, with all of its tangents and how they affect our daily lives. We also discuss how to be good preservationists.
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What does historic preservation mean to you? Is it a movement, a field of study, an avocation, a trade? How do you classify yourself: student, professional, amateur? Lately I’ve been wondering how people in the field view preservation and how they view...
To all who are contributing and/or considering contributing to the next issue of the newsletter,
Please note the change in deadline from December 15 to before Christmas. Many people are likely to be consumed by end of the semester exams and papers...
By Ken Loyd
In my blog post of October 30, I shared some quotes from my 1961 3rd grade history book, Our America. I only got halfway through the book, so today I’ll continue. Be sure to read between the lines!
On “carpetbaggers” after the Civil...
The Lake Champlain Bridge is a continuous steel truss bridge that opened in 1929, linking Chimney Point, VT and Crown Point, NY, serving as the gateway to New England or to the Adirondacks. The engineers Fay, Spofford, and Thorndike set the location in...
