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• More Musings on the National Park Service

  By ELMalvaney on July 13, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I’ve been thinking more this weekend about the role of the National Park Service in light of the issues raised last Thursday in On Recreating History. As an aside, would thinking about the role of the National Park Service on a… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-10-2009

  By ELMalvaney on July 10, 2009 • ( 2 )

  Somewhat of a slow week in the news this week, at least as far as preservation in Mississippi is concerned. Happy Friday! July 2, 2009: From the Greenwood Commonwealth, “Inferno Consumes Most of Downtown Block” July 2, 2009: A photographic… Read More ›

• On Recreating History

  By ELMalvaney on July 9, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I read an insightful short article in the Summer 2009 issue of The American Scholar (pp. 6-7) by Christopher Clausen titled “Sesquicentennial Excess: Must we erase evidence of later commemorations at Civil War sites?” (You can buy the journal at… Read More ›

• Bexley School, Hwy 98 Landmark

  By ELMalvaney on July 8, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  One of my personal landmarks on Hwy. 98, just before you get to the Lucedale exit(s), is the Bexley School, a small frame building standing off on a red-dirt hill on the north side of the highway. At first glance,… Read More ›

• NHL Photography Contest

  By ELMalvaney on July 7, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  The National Park Service has recently announced its second annual Imaging our National Heritage NHL Photo Contest.  Photos of National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) should be submitted to the Park Service by September 4, 2009. A first and second place winner… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: School for the Blind

  By ELMalvaney on July 6, 2009 • ( 30 )

  

  I know this isn’t a particularly preservationist thing to say, but one of the things I love to do is find abandoned places and explore and take photographs of them. I guess part of it is the thrill of discovery,… Read More ›

• Fall of Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on July 4, 2009 • ( 0 )

  A friend who is a Civil War expert reminded me that July 4th is also the anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg in 1863. As far as I know (and I haven’t researched this, just repeating what I’ve been told)… Read More ›

• Celebrate Independence

  By ELMalvaney on July 4, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Statue of Liberty by jsnku (Flickr) The Statue of Liberty’s crown re-opens to visitors today for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001. Last one to the top’s a rotton egg!

• MissPres News Roundup 7-3-2009

  By ELMalvaney on July 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  This week’s round-up of all the preservation news I can find from around the Magnolia State. As usual, if you have any newsy tidbits come your way, please pass them on to me so I can be sure to post… Read More ›

• MDAH Community Heritage Preservation Grant Program

  By ELMalvaney on July 2, 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  Ol’ “Eagle Eyes” Malvaney caught this exciting announcement on MDAH’s website yesterday, which not coincidentally was the first day of the state’s fiscal year: $2M Available for Preservation Projects Statewide The 2009 Legislature has authorized the seventh round of the… Read More ›

• People Pictures

  By ELMalvaney on July 1, 2009 • ( 13 )

  

  I don’t usually have pictures with people in them because, well, I guess I’m always focused on the buildings, but after mentioning architect R.W. Naef’s picture yesterday, I figured I’d better rustle it up and show what I was talking about…. Read More ›

• Already Missing Newspapers

  By ELMalvaney on June 30, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  I know lots of people claim to be eager to see the death of paper news, that old dinosaur, delivered to your door each morning to be read with a good, healthy breakfast. They say that the internet can take the place… Read More ›

• Red State Preservationist, or what the National Trust Should Have Said

  By ELMalvaney on June 29, 2009 • ( 1 )

  Some of you who are members of the National Trust might have gotten an e-mail last week titled “Help Pass the Energy Bill.” Before I even saw that e-mail, this headline popped up on my computer screen “Drop the National… Read More ›

• Museum Myths in Movies

  By ELMalvaney on June 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I know I’m way behind all of ya’ll in the pop-culture arena, so you’ve probably already seen Slumdog Millionaire. But if not, you should just because it’s a really good movie and isn’t depressing as you might expect, but also for… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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