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<B>Why Is Preservation Of Our Historic Buildings & Lighthouses Important?</b></font>
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Preservation strengthens the perpetual partnership between the past, the present and the future. Preservation encourages each generation to utilize the best of contemporary thought and technology without rejecting the history, culture, traditions, or the values on which our lives and our futures are built. This partnership shapes the sense of continuity that the art historian Sigfried Giedion considered to be "part of the very backbone of human dignity."
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<p>The noted architect, John Ruskin, makes the point that we save old buildings because we need to preserve the marks left on our national landscape by the many people who have shaped it. It is as if historic architecture affords us our "collective memory". </p>
<p>Similarly, in a recent best-seller, novelist Anne Rivers Siddons wrote:
"There should be, in every life, a place ... where you could come and visit your past, and the past of your people, and know that whatever happened outside, here timelessness lives. All of us need a place like that - a place where we can have our history close at hand, where we can see it, touch it, learn from it. Preservation helps that timelessness live in every community in America." Click <span id="clickspan"><a href="JavaScript:showOtherMethods('otherMethods', 'clickspan');">here</a> to read the rest.</p>
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Preservation attracts tourists and it attracts a deep and abiding enthusiasm. Travel expert, Arthur Frommer, for example, makes the point that tourists simply do not go to a city that has lost its soul." What visitors want is the sense of being "Some-place, not just Any-place" Likewise, the countless and ongoing re-vitalization projects we see around us also speak to the value of preservation yet re-vitalization also shows the creativity of dreamers who envision old buildings and structures functioning in ways that their original builders never dreamed of. When a former iron mill has been turned into a convention center or a former high school is now highly desirable condominium building or where a once county jail is now an office building, both preservation and magic is taking place. Moreover, in the case of our nation's lighthouses, there is a very special magic that involves the blending of the purpose of preservation and the true amazement of preserving a maritime treasures and all of the lore that is a part of each of these beacons of hope as they guided weary mariners away from harm and to safe harbor.
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