[rescue] restorations and keyboards

[Phil Stracchino]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:17:12PM -0500, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> I'm with her.
> 
> Historically important and unique things should be restored and preserved
> exactly as they were when they became historic, as reminders and as
> education.  There's only one Monticello, for example.
> 
> Things which are old and interesting, but not unique or particularly
> historic, should be subject to a mixture of restoration, preservation, and
> updating that befits their significance, location, and importance.

Exactly.

Oh, and she just corrected me -- her term is "historic renovation".


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