Hillary's Article

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/06/homaro-cantu-moto-chef-change-the-world

- I take solace in little things

- If big things are to be done, someone more capable has to do them. 

- Trying to help people wake up 

- I have done similar work in the past. Just quietly persevering, and little things start to happen. But it didn't come to a decisive triumph. It takes other people, and they weren't there. They'll either help or they won't in the case of .

- Enormous patience is required in all this effort

- I'm at peace with how things are unfolding under the challenging circumstances

- But I'm serious that there must be a clear reason to continue, or I quit come November.

LITTLE GLIMMERS OF LIGHT

- Dennis Higgins seems to think that Chris Blackwell and preservation architect Ann Hodges "think about SAB the way we do". 

- Michaerl Witter comes and goes, seems to have a SAB connection, and has made a proposal to help withthe market

- Jr. Arscott seems to be softening toward us. I think he knows we care and are are sincere

- Dennis connected me via email to a friend in the US who seems to visit SAB sometimes

- Donnette Ingrid Zacca actually drove to SAB and photographed the fire damage, showing the stonework and the thin strip of plaster remaining, and memorial stones for the 1870's rebuilding of the Methodist church

 -Then she asked me where she can go to photograph in one day

- Connecting Donnette Seville, a UNESCOI site. She might have some atypical photos of the site soon

- She was interested in the technology of scanning (which Dale Kopp posted and I was downplaying somewhat to her annoyance), a potential big step if we/she can get the art/architecture intelligencia to look into it; it can glean detailed information for rebuilding after disasters.

- Charlene Collins has been trying to keep Donnette focused on our issues--Chatlene lives in JA, is fairly well connected and has a good spirit. It took time to coax her to this position, and is a huge step, IMO.

 

HUGH LYONS

- 6 Bravo former owner

- very committed to SAB

- now in Miami but itching to return- good person, not computer literate but a fountain of help when we can phone or visit.

- referred me to another son who plans to return to SAB soon and start an ecotourism business on his 200 acres.

- made me see that we need to promote a program of ecotourism for SAB. Makes money and can protect the land

- Hugth is strong (and I've been lagging in understanding) that SAB must become a heritage town--like Falmouth.

- He explains that Columbus' ships are buried by the shore, that SAB British colonial town is older than NYC, being in excess of 300 years old. 

DARKER ISSUES (This is the area where we could do with on-the-ground contact)

- Connection with the Jamaica National Heritage Trust not there

- Trust involved with three SAB issues: 1) Seville Heritage Park; 2) Marcus Garvey birth house; 3) Marcus Garvey Youth Center (MGYC)

- We could ask them to move the 6 Bravo building to the MGYC. (No one knows how come it's still there.)

- That requires the ministry that runs the trust to persuade them

- Ann Hodges is some sort of adviser to the Trust, so she must be contacted and asked for her input and action

- I'm not getting a response from Hodges online, so it takes help from on high and elsewhere (which I believe will be forthcoming)

- We need to approach the Bob Marley Foundation to help with SAB, but that again requires help from people there and higher up.

Seville heritage Park

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5431/Full

I'm not sure I have the courage to post this on JCHF! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xnl51 JeremyT says: April 5, 2018 at 10:45 am Interesting how all civic architecture pre-abolition has a classical look-should that be slaved look? Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Interesting point. "Race" became codified into a social system during the 18th century, and that codification seems to be correlated to the emergence of the neoclassical style in architecture. Neoclassical architecture - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form, it is a style principally derived from the architecture of classical antiquity, the Vitruvian principles, and the work of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. ‎New Classical architecture · ‎Andrea Palladio · ‎Vilnius Cathedral Roman Slavery, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between slavery and the power of Rome. bbc.co.uk Chat Conversation End

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  Economics of Preservation

  
  

  
  

  I imagine that hundreds of similar sites have been demolished. It's an international crisis. The following is copied from a US-based blog I follow: 

  
  

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  “The fact that there is little home building reduces the number of jobs available in the building industry. The lack of jobs in this industry helps hold down the demand for oil, because these workers would use their wages to buy goods for themselves, such as food and vehicles. Food is grown and transported using vehicles powered by oil.”

  
  

  Trevor Burrowes

  As you have recommended before, there could be a lot of jobs remodeling existing houses–many could go from single family to multiple family easily enough–especially remaining two-story Victorians. (Places like Detroit had a monstrous number of these demolished.) That would also have the effect of increasing tourism to such sites–more coming and going, more ancillary businesses, more publicity, etc. So I don’t see where not building new houses has to reduce jobs. Also, the current norm of tearing down old buildings to make more modern ones–the religion of progress–decreases the tourist attraction of the historic fabric. So that creates one kind of job at the expense of another. It also implies the loss of embedded energy lodged in the old, to say nothing about the environmental cost and aesthetic loss of new construction.

  
  

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  "Just thinking about costs involved, I think that demolition and rebuilding add more energy use and human jobs than simple remodeling. Also, it is easier to make the new structure energy efficient with the rebuilding. Needless to say, many people place a high priority on up to date styling of kitchens and bathrooms. Also, today’s fashion is more square feet of better insulated housing, and the demolition provides this. So as long as debt can be obtained cheaply by the well-to-do, I suppose they will be buying new homes. The not so well to do, not so much."

  
  

  Trevor Burrowes

  Yes. Such a pity. Humans can’t abide working a little harder for style and class, or to be vaguely civilized. Same problem everywhere with our contemptible species.

  
  

  Here’s another idea they won’t go for: Give preference to and subsidize shelter for the working homeless. You wouldn’t need to build much more than a shed roof to keep water off school bus or a retired-RV homes. Artists and landscape architects would get work making them beautiful tourist drive-bys. But I can hear the cries of disaster tourism….

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Historic Preservation in Jamaica

Trevor Burrowes Paul Chang I'm not there, and the upsurge in caring and consciousness since I was involved in the '60s is nothing short of astonishing. So a lot is happening, but what is bewildering is why it doesn't keep pace with the concrete Miamization as people make more money and the population soars (and governance declines?). Preservation consciousness is just not keeping pace. I have suggested that there needs to be a "man on a galloping horse" quick pass throughout the island--not trying to do el primo restoration of anything, just noting, recording, photographing what is there now. I truly believe that consciousness of what is there is the indispensable first step in awakening public consciousness. Then towns and parishes could engage in friendly competition to see who can do best at using and benefiting from colonial heritage. But my views don't seem to be widely shared, and I can't think of anything else that I could help with.