Grassroots Guide: Overview

As promised, this begins a series of periodic posts for those of you who care about saving old structures, whether they are important historically, architecturally, culturally, or sentimentally.

Today’s post provides an overview of the Grassroots Guide To Saving What Matters in an effort to let you know where we hope to go with this. Once we get there, we will have assembled a guide that can be used by individuals, groups of concerned citizens, non-profits, and other entities seeking to learn how better to protect the historic structures in their communities.

I am just like most of you, a private citizen who cares deeply about saving the historic structures in our midst. I am not professionally trained, but rather an armchair enthusiast. Even so, across a decade of traveling the country and encountering sad situation one after the other, I have learned a few things - not the least of which is the fact that there is a lot of help available, but the public’s awareness of that help and how it works is lagging way behind the curve. Maybe that can change with this series. Here in loose order is the road map: