Thursday, Day 11, included a lecture on authenticity, one of my least favorite topics because it’s so subjective. Everyone has a different opinion on it, and who’s to say what’s right?
A conversation starter used in class was whether trees blocking the view of a mountain from Herman Melville’s former home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, takes away [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 29, 2009
Nantucket Part 5
June 26, 2009
Nantucket Part 4
Tuesday afternoon, Day 9, we received our introduction to the sites we will be documenting at the Maria Mitchell Association. Mitchell was a Nantucketer who was the first woman to discover a comet in 1846. She was also the first woman inducted into the Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught at Vasser College. Now, [...]
June 24, 2009
Nantucket Part 3
The weather on Monday, Day 8, was atrocious. The wind was blowing at a steady 20 mph with gusts nearing 50 mph, and it was raining off and on. So the logical thing for us Preservation Institute: Nantucket students to do was to climb church belltowers. But not before a morning lecture by the aforementioned [...]
June 21, 2009
Nantucket Part 2
On Thursday, Day 4, we took a driving tour of the entire island, from Siasconset to Madaket. Nantucket is mostly associated with its old architecture and beaches, but 40 percent of the island is conserved land and open to the public. That’s remarkable when you consider the development pressures on the island. Here are the [...]
June 18, 2009
Nantucket Part 1
Preservation Institute: Nantucket started Monday. As if I needed another reminder I wasn’t in Gainesville anymore with the damp, chilly weather, I got lost on my initial attempt to find Sherburne Hall, UF’s home base in downtown Nantucket. I’m used to the grid system, and with all the roads in Nantucket twisting and turning in [...]
June 15, 2009
Ybor City
I’m in Nantucket! I started this blog to write about my experiences over the next seven weeks at Preservation Institute: Nantucket, so many more posts will follow. I just flew in this evening, so no photos yet.
Other things:
Preservationists in Tampa want the city to restore a recently uncovered brick street in Ybor City. As the [...]
June 10, 2009
Drayton Hall
Drayton Hall is a Mecca for preservationists. It blows my mind how little has changed over the years in the house, completed in 1742 and located just upriver from Charleston, South Carolina. It’s a wonder the place even survived the Civil War, because it was one of the only plantations along the river to not [...]
June 6, 2009
Bungalow Terrace
Though I haven’t lived full time in the Tampa area since 2001, I’ve returned frequently in the past eight years and feel like I know the city fairly well. But I didn’t know Bungalow Terrace existed until a few months ago when one of my professors (who grew up in Tampa) mentioned it in class. [...]
June 2, 2009
Manatee Village Historical Park
My first foray into my historic preservation education came last fall when I did an independent study cataloging two historic buildings in the Manatee Village Historical Park in Bradenton, Florida, as part of a disaster preparedness measure. Because I was still working full time at a newspaper in Naples, I would spend a day every [...]
