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In addition to ruling over the MissPres universe with an iron fist, Malvaney enjoys reading, wandering around old buildings, stopping to smell the magnolias, fiddling with databases, and sitting on the porch with a good book and a big ol' dog. Non-interests include but are not limited to tweeting, texting, Instagramming, planking, Candy Crush, Donald Trump, and unecessarily destructive home renovation shows.

• MissPres News Roundup 6-26-09

  By ELMalvaney on June 26, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  June 2, 2009: “Do Lake Plans Endanger Indian Mounds?” the Jackson Free Press asks. This is in regards to the so-called Two Lakes plan to develop the Pearl River in Jackson. I feel no need to wade into this controversial… Read More ›

• And of course I must mention MDAH’s exceptionally fine digital collection . . .

  By ELMalvaney on June 25, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Since I’ve been wandering around other people’s online archives this week, I want to bring it back home and mention MDAH’s growing digital archive. Those of you who don’t spend each and every day checking the MDAH website for new features… Read More ›

• Internet Archive

  By ELMalvaney on June 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  A friend who is a more careful and meticulous researcher than I am (I tend to click around and spend hours getting sidetracked on other interesting topics) pointed me to an internet resource I hadn’t known of before called Internet… Read More ›

• North Carolina’s “Architects and Builders” Goes Online

  By ELMalvaney on June 23, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  I got a notice the other day that the North Carolina Architects and Builders Biographical Dictionary has just gone public online. You should check it out–it’s very intuitive and easy to navigate and you can follow the links wherever they… Read More ›

• MDAH Preservation Press newsletter

  By ELMalvaney on June 22, 2009 • ( 4 )

  One of my faithful readers sent along this new electronic newsletter–or e-zine to hipsters like me–put out by MDAH’s Historic Preservation Division.  It’s called Preservation Press, and its inaugural issue opens with a statement of purpose: The Historic Preservation Division of… Read More ›

• Partial Collapse at Mississippi Industrial College

  By ELMalvaney on June 21, 2009 • ( 12 )

  

  Although I haven’t seen anything online about it yet, I’ve heard from a reliable source that Catherine Hall (1906) at Mississippi Industrial College in Holly Springs suffered a partial collapse during a bad storm last week. Those of you who have… Read More ›

• Summer in Mississippi

  By ELMalvaney on June 19, 2009 • ( 0 )

  It’s 6:30 PM and it’s 100° in the shade. I know it’s Mississippi ya’ll and I know it’s June, but doggone . . . what do we have to do to get back down to our normal low 90s and… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-19-2009

  By ELMalvaney on June 19, 2009 • ( 1 )

  Starting today, Friday’s post will be a roundup of news items from around the state (and maybe a few tidbits from *gasp* outside the state) for your end-of-week edification, assuming we have enough news coverage each week.  If you come… Read More ›

• Getting Back to Myths

  By ELMalvaney on June 18, 2009 • ( 3 )

  I’m sure you all remember my post a couple of months ago about the fun stories I heard at the Columbus Pilgrimage explaining various architectural features (if you have a bad memory or, even worse, didn’t read it originally, you… Read More ›

• Lukacs on Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Developers

  By ELMalvaney on June 17, 2009 • ( 9 )

  While we’re on the subject of unexpected architectural commentary, I recently discovered a short, but dense little book called The End of an Age by historian John Lukacs. Lukacs has written extensively about European history, especially World War II (having… Read More ›

• Flashy Palladianism

  By ELMalvaney on June 16, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  I love to come across bits of architectural criticism in books or movies where I wouldn’t expect it, and this is one of my favorite passages from my very favorite 20th-century writer, Patrick O’Brian. I got into O’Brian because of… Read More ›

• A Virtual Trip To Exotic Locales

  By ELMalvaney on June 15, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Oh, did I not mention that the winner of last week’s Name This Place contest would win a virtual trip? Whoopsie! Well, it shouldn’t really matter, right? After all, I recently was told by a person with some authority in Mississippi’s preservation world (not because… Read More ›

• Name This Place: We Have a Winner!

  By ELMalvaney on June 13, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  And after an exciting week in our inaugural Name This Place contest, we have a winner! Tsj1957 emerged as the clear victor yesterday with a total of 7 points, even though Carunzel and doakley made it a real competition down… Read More ›

• Name This Place #5

  By ELMalvaney on June 12, 2009 • ( 16 )

  

  To play this exciting game, see The Rules. Today is the final contest in this series. Today, a winner will emerge (I hope)! Current Standings: tsj1957: 6 points Carunzel: 4 points doakley: 2 points Everyone Else: Total Losers Hint: This… Read More ›

• Name This Place #4

  By ELMalvaney on June 11, 2009 • ( 6 )

  

  To play this exciting game, see The Rules. We got ourselves a competition going! Current Standings: Carunzel: 4 tsj1957: 4 doakley: 2 Everyone Else: 0 (still time to catch up!) Hint: This building is in the Delta. Note: I’m going… Read More ›

• Name This Place #3

  By ELMalvaney on June 10, 2009 • ( 7 )

  

  To play this exciting game, see The Rules. Current Standings:  Carunzel: 3 tsj1957: 2 doakley: 1 Everyone Else: 0 (still plenty of time to catch up!) Hint: This place has never appeared in Preservation in Mississippi or on my Flickr… Read More ›

• Name This Place #2

  By ELMalvaney on June 9, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  To play this exciting game, see The Rules. The Standings So Far:   tsj1957:  2 points, Carunzel: 1 point, Everyone Else: 0 points Hint: This building is from a completely different century than yesterday’s building.

• Dealing with Difficult Histories

  By ELMalvaney on June 9, 2009 • ( 8 )

  

  I don’t know if any of you saw this article in Sunday’s Clarion-Ledger (“When Art Offends,” June 7, 2009) about the awkwardness of the Depression-era mural in Jackson’s Eastland federal courthouse–what to do about the stereotypical and degrading depictions of the black characters… Read More ›

• Name This Place #1

  By ELMalvaney on June 8, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  To be a part of this exciting game, see The Rules. Hint: This photo, with caption appeared in a Preservation in Mississippi post in March, 2009.

• “Name This Place,” An Exciting Contest!

  By ELMalvaney on June 8, 2009 • ( 0 )

  This week, to celebrate that I still haven’t turned on my air conditioning this year even though it’s already the second week of June and we’re in Mississippi, we’re going to play a little game, or if you prefer–as a more mature… Read More ›

• Enjoying People Who Enjoy History

  By ELMalvaney on June 7, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I heard this story on NPR today about the keepers of the old Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105082304). They interviewed a man whose father had worked there and who now follows in his footsteps tending to the cemetery. He knew all… Read More ›

• Military-Themed Day Trip to Hattiesburg

  By ELMalvaney on June 5, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Those of you who love both military history (and really, what’s not to love about guns and tanks and troop movements?) and museums have probably already checked out the Mississippi Armed Forced Museum at Camp Shelby. Camp Shelby, of course, has been… Read More ›

• Demolition Permit for old Baptist Church in Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on June 4, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Well, I should know better than to write a positive post because sure enough, there’s always bad news following behind it. That’s why I tell kids, “Be a pessimist–you’ll never be disappointed!” Anyway, after yesterday’s good news about the Mannsdale-Livingston… Read More ›

• Preservation Victory in . . . Madison the County?

  By ELMalvaney on June 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  I know, I know, most people, including me, don’t equate the upscale suburban sprawl that is Madison County with preservation, but in fact, the preservationists who have banded together to protect the rural community of Mannsdale-Livingston, now being pulled into… Read More ›

• MDAH CLG Grants, 2009

  By ELMalvaney on June 2, 2009 • ( 0 )

  While looking at the History Newsletter on the MDAH website, I noticed (albeit very belatedly) that MDAH has also announced their Certified Local Government grants for this year. Just in case you missed it, here’s the most relevant part of… Read More ›

• MDAH Preservation Boot Camp 2009

  By ELMalvaney on June 2, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I saw this interesting bit in the Mississippi History Newsletter that the Mississippi Dept. of Archives & History puts out monthly. I notice that now they’ve started posting the newsletter online too, which is helpful. Free Preservation Boot Camp Set… Read More ›

• Happy (?) Hurricane Season

  By ELMalvaney on June 1, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  This isn’t really a preservation-related post, I guess, but it is Mississippi-related, so I at least cover half my blog title. Today, June 1, is an important day in the Mississippi calendar: it’s the beginning of hurricane season. Growing up on the Gulf… Read More ›