Archive for February, 2010

Link of the Week – Futures of the Past

Feb. 24, 2010 Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announced his retirement in November. This recent article in Architect magazine is not only a great retrospective of Moe’s career and the changes he brought about at the National Trust, but also a great primer on the many and varied tenets [...]

Ding-Dong – A Real-life “Windows Smackdown”

by Erin Hanafin Berg, Field Representative February 17, 2010 An unsuspecting young salesman from The Window Store just had the misfortune of ringing my doorbell. My “Not interested,” which I delivered as soon as he introduced himself, was not enough to deter him. So, instead of getting a quick and easy brush-off, he got a30-second [...]

New Use for an Old White Castle – and more on fast-food preservation

by Erin Hanafin Berg, Field Representative February 16, 2010 The other day, I was having idle conversation with a friend about White Castle, and she said something about the “White Castle accordion shop.” What?!? (I wonder if those four words had ever before been strung together in the English language.) I was familiar with the [...]

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