MOVEMENT FOR THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND SITES

Monrovia, Liberia

CELL: +231.886.920.151/886.747.426

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upcoming emergency meeting of marylanders

July 14, 2013

STATEMENT of PURPOSE

Dr. John Henrique Clarke once observed, “History to a people is what a mother is to her child.” The history of Maryland must be preserved for obvious historical reasons.

Recently, the Ministry of Public Works demolished private properties in Pleebo City as a “street expansion project.” Similar exercise is pending in Harper City.    

The disturbing news has captured the attention and deepest concern of Marylanders everywhere necessitating an All-Important Emergency Meeting on Saturday, August 3, 2013, 2pm at the G. W. Gibson High School Auditorium, Capitol-Bye-Pass.

One of the reasons constituting this meeting is to express our profound support for our Heritage and Values in places that reflect our History as a people out of the sacrifices of our Forefathers and mothers.

This Meeting will help to make a case of national development and preservation of history!

The Meeting will develop a single and profound approach to influence Government’s decision in this respect. Because by law, the people have a voice when a project involving government action, approval, or funding may affect properties that qualify as Historic Places.  

The Meeting will charge a committee with historic preservation leadership in Maryland so as to design an approach how to respectfully raise our concerns to the Government. It will promote preservation, enhancement and productive use of Maryland’s historic resources. The committee will advise the Superintendent and Congress on historic preservation policy. It will designate, preserve, protect, enhance, and perpetuate those sites, structures, objects, and districts which reflect outstanding elements of Maryland’s cultural, artistic, social, ethnic, economic, political, architectural, historic, technological, institutional or other heritage; and  will establish a method to draw a reasonable balance between the protection of historic properties and the County’s unique historic character and Central Government’s development projects by creating a quasi-judicial commission that will review, and approve or discourage any proposed demolition of, moving of or alteration to property of historic value in Maryland.

Compensation for properties already demolished in Pleebo by Government will also top the agenda.

SIGNED:                                                                                            

             Thomas G. Bedell/ORGANIZING CHAIR   Bolton Dennis/ORGANIZING COCHAIR 

“History to a people is what a mother is to her child”