Anita: Hi. This is Jane. Where have you been? Can we talk off line? Jane.
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>From: Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Apr 30, 2008 8:26 PM
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>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Congress approves major Va. heritage area
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>Kudos to Congress. It is about time.
>
>Anita
>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:06:23 -0400
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Congress approves major Va. heritage area
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Wonderful news in the endless, and usually losing, battle to protect rural
>> land and historic (and historical) landscapes from the insatiable maw of
>> "development."
>>
>> --Jurretta Heckscher
>>
>> Congress Makes Long Stretch Between Va., Pa., a 'Heritage Area'
>> By Sandhya Somashekhar
>> Washington Post Staff Writer
>> Wednesday, April 30, 2008; 1:08 PM
>>
>> Congress voted yesterday to designate a 175-mile corridor stretching from
>> Monticello to Gettysburg -- an area dubbed by historians as the Journey
>> Through Hallowed Ground -- as a national heritage area.
>>
>> The region encompasses presidential homes, Civil War battlefields and other
>> historical sites along routes 15 and 231 in Virginia, Maryland and
>> Pennsylvania. Local activists and legislative leaders for three years have
>> been seeking the designation, which they hope will boost tourism and bring
>> in federal grants.
>>
>> "By designating this corridor as a national heritage area, the route will be
>> celebrated, honored and shared with our children, grandchildren and
>> generations to come," Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.), one of the main proponents
>> of the legislation, said in a statement.
>>
>> The House of Representatives voted 291 to 117 last night to grant the
>> designation; it passed the Senate earlier this month. If signed by President
>> Bush, the Journey Through Hallowed Ground will become the nation's 38th
>> national heritage area.
>>
>> For more information, go tohttp://www.hallowedground.org/content/view/396/57.
>>
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