Inspiration

Top 10 Historic Preservation Related Movies

A while ago I spent a few days on a research retreat and my friend Chad and I got to talking about the movie Cars and its preservation message. My first experience with the movie was at the 2008 Historic Roads Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Michael Wallis, an author and historian who has written …

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Going AWOL in Springfield, 1861

I recently completed a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the 1855 Brick House in Springfield, WV. One of the most interesting things I found during my research was a reference to the house in the book Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade  by John O. Casler. Casler was a Confederate soldier from Springfield and his …

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Road trips through history – US Route 50

I’ve been selected as a presenter at this year’s “Preserving the Historic Road” Conference (www.historicroads.org) in September in Indianapolis. I have attended this conference twice in the past (it’s every two years) and it’s one of my favorites. Maybe it’s my engineering background, or the fact I worked at a state department of transportation for …

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