Heidi Harendza wrote:

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> I'm proud to be a preservationist, because amid the Wal-marts that I'm sure
> will eventually be representative of my existence on this small planet, I'd
> like to think that someday, someone will remember our generations perhaps not
> for what we built, but the buildings that we considered important.
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I have recently been forced into contact and conversations with the generation of
preservationists before me and the generation after me within a week.  The good
news is that those Old Farts may have been making it up as they went along, but
the got the big stuff right and they taught us the right priorities.  The better
news is that the next generation has less to make up, more to build on and is
better prepared.

The weird part is that at least in architecture, they seem to be
disproportionately female.  How did that happen?  And what does it mean?  Is it
typical of your gender to be motivated by what the built record will say about
us, and mine that I am first drawn to the problem solving, the dirt, the danger
and the beer?  And does it matter?

-jc