Preservationists Hang on to Old Boston
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In a city where centuries-old meeting houses, churches and burial grounds seem to dot every corner, it's not easy to find buildings dating to the earliest years in Boston's 374-year history.
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By Rachel Cohen  As the oldest organization to have success in San Francisco Bay shoreline restoration since starting in the 1960s, Oakland-based Save the Bay has strived to keep the tide of progress fresh.   This past week, three Save the Bay leaders met with guardians of other U.S.
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To catch up on lost time, follow those who've beaten Wall Street.
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New Yorkers have long used roofs and balconies to rise above the din. But in many older buildings, the humble fire escape has always been the next best thing.
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Boat fishermen who survived last weekend sitting ashore may find a very different picture after the remnants of Hurricane Ivan. Some managed to get out on Boston Harbor and Nantucket Sound.
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To appreciate this city, look up. Otherwise the very buildings that close in to create the Old World appeal may be too close to yield their secrets.
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Johnny Pesky is still holding on. He's holding on to a baseball career in its seventh decade and to the affection of Red Sox fans who once blamed him for Boston's loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1946 World Series.
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By Mike Dougherty, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun. 22--thingsthatwere.blogspot.com   I love old stuff, and this blog has scads of pix of old stuff that once was. Some of it is still around. Lots of it isn't or is in a serious state of disrepair. Pretty cool stuff. Check it out.
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In what architects describe as a preservation emergency, Ernest Hemingway's house in Havana is tumbling down, and an effort to save it is threatened by politics.
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By Lisa Smith Daily Herald Staff Writer  The Campbell House won't succumb to the wrecking ball after all.
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NEW YORK -- They&#39;ve cleaned up the old burg, made it safer for the tourists, but you can still get your pocket picked or your purse snatched.
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Massachusetts no longer has to worry about the Curse of the Bambino plaguing the Red Sox, but the Curse of the Big Dig, that never-ending Boston highway project, is still much alive.
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It's a stately old building with looming columns, worn marble stairways and arched doorways &#151; dedicated in 1900 "to the conservation, advancement and dissemination of American Heritage."
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Time never stands still, but there are some places that seem to withstand its effects better than others.
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Surrounded by the City of London financial district's dizzying maze of skyscrapers, the centuries-old Smithfield meat market has survived untroubled as a reminder of a bygone age -- until now.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 25--It's one of the oldest historical sites in Minnesota. But that doesn't mean folks are lining up to own it.   A decade after the federal government closed the U.S.
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Parts of a ship thought to have lain in the Thames Estuary for 500 years are recovered intact.