Was going through my old copies of Preservation, the magazine published by the National Historic Trust, today – I am trying like crazy to get through the stacks of magazines I’ve been waiting for a chance to read! and I came across the July/August 2008 issue. There is a review of the book referenced in the title above by Melissa Holbrook Pierson, which was written by Dwight Young, a Trust staff contributor.
Pierson describes ‘progess’ and what it means, about losing the scenes of childhood to a form of modernzation she describes as a pulverization into unrecognizability by examining three places she lived. Young, the reviewer says the book is not just an exercise of nostalgia but also a refreshing and right outrage.
Since I love seeing the places I’ve known in my past, and share with Young the sense of miracle that comes with finding a childhood haunt unaltered by time I find I want to document what still exists.
I’ll be taking more photographs on my journeys through time. I’ll write more about what I find, or don’t find.
I’ve just ordered the book from Amazon. I’ll let you know what I think.
