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Back in the 1980s, I had the honor to staff a Certified Local Government
historical board for the County of San Diego. Most of the people appointed to
the board had zero training in historic preservation law or even experience in
what makes something historic. I believe that situations continues today with
many decision-makers. It also exists with trained professional historians who
do not understand what forensic evidence can contribute toward solving
social history issues important to the general public, geographers,
anthropologists and sociologists in archaeological contexts. The CLG board members at the
County were always saying, "nothing built in my lifetime can be historical or
important" and laughed heartily. Ironically, 90% of the buildings landmarked
by the local cities in the county region were built in the past eighty years
and I have friends older than that. Why would we landmark a building if
historical records exist in newspapers, letters, and government documents? The
answer is simple, those records do not exist sufficiently to adequately
describe the buildings and we know even less about the artistic qualities the
individual designers and builders applied during their construction. The same goes
for archaeology of the 20th century.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
_www.legacy106.com_ (http://www.legacy106.com)
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