> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabriel Orgrease [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:47 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BP] Histo Presto Content
> 
> 
> Met History wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 1/3/05 10:00:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> >> Besides, we all know that the tar schmear on the roof trick is the 
> >> worst treatment you can apply to a historic building roof.
> >
> > I am beginning to rethink the tar-on-the-roof shibboleth, 
> > along with vinyl siding.  I bet Ruskin would have used tar.
> >
> > Ken?
> 
> Once again I'm called upon to play the iconoclast? Who is 
> Ruskin? I've not read him.

Philosophical father of the anti-industrial and Arts & Crafts movements.
Liked to think very big architectural thoughts. Definitely an
environmental determinist. A very unsatisfying biographical overview at
your sister's favorite info source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

> With all materials there is an optimal manner of use. 

What he says!

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Dan Becker,  Exec. Dir.     "The workman ought often to
Raleigh Historic           be thinking, and the thinker
Districts Commission              often to be working."
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