“….But lasting change won’t happen until everyone feels involved and invested in the preservation effort, until the issue is brought home in that kind of personal way, the issue will continue to be largely ignored by the larger public, whose concerns are the first items on the agenda of the politicians who can change the nature of this discourse.
Doing that is going to mean identifying many different and geographically dispersed examples of our national heritage and creating discussion and interest around them where they exist, encouraging knowledge tours by schoolchildren and bringing history back to communities in a way that excites and intrigues. When a politician’s child comes home and asks if they are going to knock down a house, building or historical site that they have drawn and studied at school; the discussion about saving our heritage will have a fundamentally different tone.” [Read original article]
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