in VT able
I was browsing
America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2003 (National Trust for Historical Preservation), looking for interesting structures that I might try to visit, and there among the tobacco barns of Maryland and the Nine-Mile Canyon of 10,000 Native American rock images is the
entire state of Vermont:
The distinctive characteristics that define Vermont -- historic towns, villages and rural landscapes -- could be lost if sprawl-type development is allowed to occur in a haphazard, out-of-scale, land-consuming manner. The one-size-fits-all big-box "template" has proven to be detrimental to communities across the United States because of its negative economic and environmental impact on historic downtowns and local businesses. The size and design of these stores often overwhelm their surroundings, and impersonal corporate identity too often trumps community character.
Strange.
* Ray, 5/25/2004 04:30:58 PM
