Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"The worst part was the agencies," Buckley says. "The historic preservation division of Vermont's development and community affairs agency, Environmental Protection, Fish and Wildlife, National Parks, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the public service department of Vermont, the state agency of transportation, and on and on."
Preservation Librarian Willis C. Meredith said that "for some unknown reason, the system that supposedly controls the temperature and humidity started to pump steam into the stacks."
The Lighthouse Preservation Society had directed me to the Thacher Island people, so I assumed that they must be working together. But when I asked what role the LPS had with the island, I got a negative reaction. No one on the dock seemed to care for the LPS.
Hyland founded LPS after doing a series of photographs up the New England coast on "the lighthouse trail." Realizing the condition of the lights, and the historic value of the buildings, he decided to devote himself fulltime to their documentation and preservation. The work of LPS is much less hands...
Next year is the bicentennial for American lighthouses, and the Senate has declared August 7 "National Lighthouse Day." LPS will be sponsoring, in conjunction with the Coast Guard, a kick-off celebration at Maine's Portland Head Light. After that, it will be up to local groups to apply and...