Maintaining historical sites is not as important as bringing in lots of money. 
Since most of our civic leaders and population can't get their history right,
why would you think that leadership is going to invest in something that won't
bring them big bucks.


On August 11, 2011 at 11:29 AM Steve Corneliussen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Note for the Virginia History forum
>
> > The Richmond Times-Dispatch tells me that it
> > intends to print my latest Fort Monroe op-ed
>
> Indeed the Times-Dispatch did print it:
> http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/oped/2011/aug/11/tdopin02-corneliussen-what-fate-for-this-national--ar-1230828
>
> I hope that forum participants will post comments online at the RTD site, or
> here, or both. Below is a copy of the op-ed's first two paragraphs. If
> President Ayers is even partly right about American history's greatest
> moment, Virginia has on its hands a civic-history issue orders of magnitude
> bigger than has been recognized -- and our leaders are failing. Thanks.
>
> Steven T. Corneliussen
> Poquoson
>
> FIRST TWO PARAGRAPHS:
> Slavery, wrote a profiler of University of Richmond president Edward L.
> Ayers, began to end early in the Civil War, when three black men fled to
> Fort Monroe and claimed asylum among Union forces. The profiler quoted
> historian Ayers: "It's the greatest moment in American history."
>
> Wait. Fort Monroe? Chesapeake Bay sand spit beside Hampton Roads? Then why
> are Virginia's leaders slating its post-Army future to include "swanky
> condos," as a Times-Dispatch editorial put it? Isn't that too much like
> placing a Walmart beside a battlefield, a subdivision opposite Monticello or
> casinos at Gettysburg?
>
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