Various words were thrown back to me–events, dates, maps, wars, battles–and the list goes on.
None of the responses really surprised me, but there are other words to parallel with the word history. Words like preservation, remember, and trust come to mind and unfortunately, the words failure, greed, demolish, surrender, neglect, and ignore are on the flipside as I continue examining the winding path of history a cotton mill where I live has taken.
I shared the story over at Douglasville Patch last week where I have a weekly column regarding how Douglasville ended up with the cotton mill and how important the mill was to our economic health over most of the last century. You can see my column from last week here.
Now I want to share the rest of the story regarding how history can be neglected and forgotten by the very people we trust to preserve it. Sometimes in their attempts to improve the lives of citizens in the here and now they actually betray the trust handed to them by citizens who took their leave a long time ago. They also end up cheating future generations regarding our historical record.
History can also be used by folks who are just looking for easy outs in business in order to leverage property or satisfy some misguided need to collect historic properties, and then allow them to die a slow death of neglect for some strange reason I simply cannot fathom.
4 comments:
Hi!
I like your post.
This tells about something that we often neglect.
Our History is Our Heritage, that needs to be preserved.
And i completely agree with your point that sometimes it happens that with whom we expect that they will preserve that, most of the time they only fails in it!
Thank s for sharing!
M Tech Compuers
regards
neeta
But There are a number of scenarios that contribute to the neglect of historic properties, including impoverished owners, difficulties arising from unsettled estates, absentee landlords or simply an uncaring attitude on the part of an owner. However there is an even more disturbing trend found throughout the state: an owner's intentional use of "demolition by neglect" to circumvent legislation aimed at protecting historic properties.
Lauren i completely agree wit you. The government should take a special action regarding this. Historic properties should be maintain for are next generation.
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