The the sponsors of this discussion. And to all of the smithsonian and park Service Staff here today, welcome and thank you. To our friends and allies in the preservation work we thank you for coming in for joining us. You to those thank from outside traditional areas of our field, scholars and advocates for community advancement. Especially to our panelists, special guests who i will introduce at greater length later on in the program. Your inputppreciate and want to thank you for helping us expand the scope of historic reservation so that it reflects the two root true diversity of our nation and work to save more overlooked places. Let me tell you why this is important. We will set the stage for the next 50 years of our work. We believe that telling the full american story and becoming a more Inclusive Movement is crucial to our understanding of who we are, and to where we are going. Recognize thets importance of these issues and doing great work to healed stories from our past. Said
90 minute talk. Professor savage everyone in this room has probably had the experience of wandering through an older u. S. City and stumbling into the beguiling section of a rural cemetery. With its vast collection of gravestones and tombs and miniature temples interspersed among rolling hills, woods, and vales. Highly manipulated landscape is an Outdoor Museum in more ways than one. It was a striking difference. The objects that surround us here in this Beautiful Museum are lovingly and superbly conserved as if they were all made yesterday or teleported a miraculously from every age of the past into our present. But even in the greatest rural cemeteries like this one, the Allegheny Cemetery in pittsburgh, the passage and pressure of time are everywhere visible. The residues of past eras coat the graves and factory smoke and in factory smoke and coal dust. The stone and metal erode. Slabs tilt and sometimes fall into the ground. And, by the way, this is not what every grave in the Alle
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