Thank you, Steve-- and thank you so much for your indefatigable dedication to the recognition and preservation of Fort Monroe.
Please do continue to post about it here, and to let us know what we can do to try to move decision-makers in the right direction to ensure its future.
--Jurretta Heckscher
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On Feb 7, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Steve Corneliussen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> It is impossible for the emotions arising from the
>> sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here: so
>> beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing
>> as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator
>> is really indescribable!
>
> Thanks, Jurretta Heckscher, for this news, and thanks, Lewis Burruss, for calling to mind that passage from Thomas Jefferson.
>
> Here's additional thanks, meant ironically for people beyond this forum, just as the above is meant sincerely for people within it: And concerning this particular national treasure under Virginia's stewardship, thanks, leaders in Virginia, for not sacrificing its sense of place to parochial, self-entitled special interests.
>
> The struggle for Virginia's national treasure of Fort Monroe is entering yet another phase, Gov. McDonnell having approved in December, without amendments, the overdevelopment plan that Pollyannas had hoped he would not. But no bulldozers have arrived yet, and indeed land sales in the disputed part (colored red at FortMonroeNationalPark.org) are still, for the moment, illegal, and neither the National Parks Conservation Association nor the Virginian-Pilot will be relenting, whatever the quisling (for this issue) National Trust for Historic Preservation may do next. In this forum, more to come sometime soon on this now eight-year struggle, if I may continue to be indulged about it here.
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