Guilford Preservation Alliance
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Our Spring Program
Anthony Sblendorio, a pioneer in the field of sustainable and regenerative architectural and landscape design, will present a talk entitled “Principles of Sustainable Development” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, in the meeting room of the Guilford Free Public Library, 67 Park Street. Cosponsored by the GPA and the library, the event is free and open to the public.
Guilford: A Walking Guide
The first edition of Sarah Brown McCulloch’s Guilford: A Walking Guide, The Green & Neighboring Streets was published in 1989 with principal funding provided by the Guilford Preservation Alliance. We are presenting for the first time an online version of the text (from the 2006 seventh printing, revised, with a few editorial notes in brackets from 2012). In the future we plan to present an illustrated version. A new revision of McCulloch’s book is expected to appear in the summer of 2012.
You can click here to begin reading Guilford: A Walking Guide.
Dispatches from Dennis
Dispatches from Dennis: Winter 2012
This summer, I visited England with my wife who travelled there to meet a client for her job as a consultant. This is the first time in almost 24 years I was able to travel with my wife on a business trip since my duties as Mr. Mom have diminished with the growth of my three children. With my wife having two days of breakfast-lunch-dinner meetings scheduled during the trip, I was left with two full days to explore the parts of England within driving distance of London. So I needed a plan … [Read More...]
Sustainable Guilford
What’s new, what’s old
A column by Howard Brown, widely acclaimed environmental and management consultant and GPA board member. Preservation and Change. I often hear people say that nothing ever changes around here. When I moved to Guilford in 1970, there was one traffic light. Route 1 was a rural road through open fields and woods. Most of the houses along the shoreline were uninsulated summer cottages. The population was about 8,000 and an acre of land was about $8000. Many of the houses in the center … [Read More...]
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