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• Minnesota State Senator: Historic Tax Credit Needed to Create Jobs

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 123
  Yesterdays issue of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune carried a commentary by State Senator Tom Bakk. Bakks commentary focused on ways to get Minnesotans back to work. Among his ideas is a state historic rehabilitation tax credit. Writes Senator Bakk: A historic building rehabilitation tax credit would create jobs ...
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• Hutchinson Memorial Chapel

  
  ClarenceGrad72 — Authority: 127
  In honor of Extreme Makeover choosing a home on Massachusetts Avenue to rebuild for a very worthy family, todays church will be from the same street, in a stretching it kind of way. The Episcopal Home pretty much takes up a full block and located at 1 Massachusetts and extends down Busti to Rhode Island and over to ...
  8 hours ago

• Preserving the Pavilion

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 592
  From the Daily News : The city will bury a faux-marble road map from the 1964 Worlds Fair in Queens beneath sand and gravel to protect it this winter - a year after being criticized for exposing the fragile relic to ice. Volunteers began clearing debris and weeds in recent weeks from the 9,000-square-foot ...
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• A Visit from Dina Riccobono

  
  BenSpark.com — Authority: 438
  Photo-A-Day #1674 Today was a very awesome day. Allison and Eva and I have been looking forward to our visit from Dina Riccobono ever since she mentioned coming to see us a little over a week ago. Dina was in New York all this week for AdTech and Audience. I missed out on a couple very good conferences from what ...
  20 hours ago

• Sam Reed, Mortician & Caretaker of Atlantas Oakland Cemetery on StoryCorps

  
  Southern Graves — Authority: 416
  Ms. Amber Leigh left a comment yesterday on the most recent In Case You Missed It post, and Im highlighting it here so hopefully more readers will see it. "...Im writing from StoryCorps , Americas largest nonprofit national oral history project. I thought you and your readers would be interested in listening to ...
  22 hours ago

• Transformation on Forest Park Avenue

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 123
  Step one: Take one leap of faith to believe that underneath an ugly slipcover is a building that can be rehabilitated. Take a peak under that cover. Step two: Utilize historic rehabilitation tax credits, get your drawings and permits in hand, find financing and start the recovery of a badly-remuddled building. ...
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• Saving a beautiful flamingo sanctuary from extinction

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 162
  This article written by Beatrice Obwocha appeared in the Kenyan national newspaper The Standard today (5//11/09) From the Nairobi-Nakuru highway, the shoreline of Lake Elementaita looks like a desert surrounding a small patch of water. The western and eastern shores of the lake hold little patches of water from hot ...
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• T&P Tavern Closes For Remodeling

  
  Fort Worthology — Authority: 125
  We’ve just heard that the T&P Tavern (in the T&P station in Downtown, natch) is closed for now due to remodeling. They’re commencing restoration of the classic 1930s diner inside the building (hooray!) and can’t run the outside kiosk while that’s going. We’ll make sure to keep an eye on the project ...
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• An Evening of Jazz across the river

  
  Qtown I Quincy, Illinois — Authority: 110
  The Quincy Fine Arts Society / Great River Jazz Preservation Society are proud to present jazz pianist Don Stille and Keepers of the Flame LIVE in concert! Sun., Nov. 15, 2009 from 5:00 pm until 8 p.m at The Quality Inn of Hannibal MO , Appearing on stage with Don Don Stille (piano) will be vocalist Jeannie Lambert, ...
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• France: Issue 99, Revue du Cercle de Genealogie Juive

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 482
  The newest issue of Revue du Cercle de Genealogie Juive (Paris, France) is available. Issue 99 contains the following articles: -- The descendants of Raphael Vorms from Bionville (Moselle). Louis Vorms and Guy Worms, descendants of Raphael Vorms (d. 1763) and his two sons Hayman and Salomon, trace the family. ...
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• Reconfiguration of Medical Mart plans

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 434
  Citing higher than anticipated costs , MMPI dropped its plans to renovate Public Auditorium and to use it and neighboring properties as the site of the planned Medical Mart . MMPI officials say they are considering multiple alternatives, but are focusing on building it on Mall C , also known as Strawbridge ...
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• Tinkers Creek Aqueduct environment assessment

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 434
  The National Park Service completed (PDF) its environmental assessment for the proposed replacement of the Tinkers Creek Aqueduct in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It recommends the construction of a replacement aqueduct. The assessments public comment period ends on November 29.
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• A Threat to Nashville’s Ft. Negley Park

  
  TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Authority: 125
  German-Americans in the Civil War expert Joseph R. Reinhart recently wrote to us about a threat to Nashville’s Fort Negley Park.  Fort Negley’s museum specialist Krista Castillo is in danger of losing her job, and the park would see a replacement with no Civil War experience.  Greg Biggs of the Clarksville, TN ...
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• Digital Preservation: ACM Will Partner with Portico and CLOCKSS for Preservation of Its Digital Library Resources

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 642
  From an Announcement: ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) announced today that it is providing its institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to preserve their valuable electronic resources. These services, provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, address the scholarly ...
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• They Start So Early: Teenage Preservationists Get Behind North Hills Onion

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 639
  [Left image via Los Angeles Love Affair ; Right image via Los Angeles Music Week ] It was a spiritual day yesterday for the Cultural Heritage Commission. In addition to approving the Bethlehem Baptist Church , the Commission also voted to consider Historic-Cultural Monument status for "the Onion" in North Hills, ...
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• New Video on Web Archiving

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 642
  From the Description: Web content changes all the time. If we don’t save that content before it disappears, a major part of our cultural history will be lost. The Library of Congress is working to provide permanent access to web content of historical importance. It selects websites for collection, requests ...
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• The Breakers – Newport – Rhode Island

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 443
  Cornelius Vanderbilt II Cornelius Vanderbilt II (November 27, 1843 – September 12, 1899) was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family . He was the favorite grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who left him $500,000.00, and the eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt , ...
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• Veterans Day Service at Decatur Cemetery

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 141
  [ November 11, 2009; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Susan at the Decatur Preservation Alliance forwards this announcement...You are invited to the annual Veterans Day Memorial Service next Wednesday, November 11, at 11 a.m. in Decatur Cemetery presented by Friends of Decatur Cemetery (FODC) and Harold Byrd American Legion ...
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• Correspondence and catchphrases

  
  Ted Hughes archive — Authority: 103
  I am currently checking through the large correspondence section of the archive. As I have explained before the correspondence is subdivided into separate sections for personal and writers... (From the Ted Hughes Archive Blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the outstanding English poet)
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• Park Service, Preservation Group At Odds Over Repairs

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 444
  A battle is brewing at the Gettysburg Military Park over money donated to repair more than 100 monuments.The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association raised over $1 million 10 years ago, which was enough to repair all 140 Pennsylvania monuments.The group said that half of the monuments are still missing ...
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