Preservation

Historic preservationists are feeling optimistic that Oak Park Village Hall will be saved from demolition since the village board walked back its original decision to direct staff to design a brand-new facility. Now, focusing on renovating and modernizing the historic building, the village of Oak Park is planning to hire an architectural consulting firm specializing in historic preservation. The village …

Want to savor the flavors of summer year-round? Peninsula preservation pros share their tips. While the days of summer slowly fade, your produce doesn’t have to meet the same fate. In the depths of winter, a jar of fruit or vegetables can transport you back to a warm summer day. For those who attended “Preserving Green Chiles,” an event hosted …

San Bernardino County Firefighters watched helplessly as a landslide came down around their firehouse.  Mojave National Preserve partially reopened Friday morning after historic rainfall from Hilary caused significant storm damage throughout the park. As a tropical storm, Hilary dropped record amounts of rainfall in the Southwest, with Los Angeles and a number of other California cities seeing their highest summer …

The Annual Gala & Awards Dinner celebrates Greater Philadelphia’s agents of change in the bicycling community, from youth athletes and their supporters to community organizers and advocates. The Connect the Circuit and I Bike PHL awards recognize individuals whose work moves the needle to make biking safe & fun for everyone both inside and outside of the city limits. Delaware …

Thomas Mullen paperboy@vcn.com The Jefferson County Historical Society (JCHS) is wrapping up its inaugural online fundraising effort. With a $5,000 goal, JCHS surpassed the halfway point, expecting to meet its summer effort with an eye toward preservation tools. “We wanted to try out an online fundraiser just to support our collections. The collections team maintains anything you see in our …

But rejects idea, for now, of tax to fund land purchases Philipstown covers 51.5 square miles, or 32,960 acres. Of that, according to a preservation plan approved by the Town Board last month, 17,889 acres, or 54 percent, is protected by local, city, state and federal governments or environmental organizations from development through ownership or conservation easements.   The Town …

On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Lee Satterfield and Ambassador of Yemen to the United States Mohammed Al-Hadhrami, accompanied by the Department’s Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking, signed a bilateral cultural property agreement that renews and extends protections for Yemeni cultural property which were put in place in 2020 on an emergency basis. The …

A DECADE OR so ago, commercial egg freezing promised to give women a little more control over the incessant ticking of their biological clocks. Age is a determining factor in female fertility. Women are born with as many egg cells as they will ever have and this stock gradually matures, depletes and degrades. So when advances in freezing techniques meant …

A new startup, Inalife, has created a digital legacy platform that aims to help families preserve their precious memories, create an interactive family tree and even record messages for other members to be played at a date in the future — like when a new baby grows up and reaches adulthood, for example. The Hong Kong-based company launched its desktop …

The Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit which officially acquired the estate on June 30,  recently posted photos of the ballroom and the outdoor “Rockery,” and Untapped New York published an extensive article titled “10 Secrets of Lynnewood Hall, ‘The Last American Versailles’” which includes its own set of original photos. From Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation’s Facebook post on Thursday, August …