Hello fellow lovers of Historic Indianapolis! I do hope you will forgive my brief absence; I was in picturesque New Harmony, Indiana attending "Preserving Historic Places: Indiana's Statewide Preservation Conference," consorting with others of my ilk. How inspiring to meet so many fascinating people who impact preservation in Indianapolis, and around the state, nation and globe.
Attendees had the opportunity to hear Paul Goldberger speak. I loved everything he had to say and wish I had a recording of his speech. One of the points I embraced was that preservation should be approached with a "genuine value of what we seek to preserve rather than out of fear for what will come next." Even agreeing to that, we must still determine what merits the moniker of "value." Anyone want to weigh in on this?
Downtown New Harmony
I find it challenging to embrace anything built past about 1959. I am rarely passionate about anything past 1940. I guess I'd have to say I'm a 'purist' when it comes to craftsmanship and quality of materials. With the proliferation of vinyl villages so prevalent around the 'burbs of Indiana, I dig my (pink peep toe) heels in all the harder and am tempted to campaign on behalf of any dilapidated structure anywhere. My eye would rather look upon (not gracefully) aging wood than one of these vinyl bread boxes, constructed of crap materials and appearing exactly as the myriad other dreadful cookie cutter, putty gray, soul vampires in the same vicinity. But I digress, as usual. Newer is not always better! For me, rarely better.
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