12-06-2010, 02:57 PM
:lol:
Well, sort of. There is an 1830s wood palisade fort near here. At first, it was in predictable disrepair, was owned privately, then taken over by the State of Texas, which determined after restoration, that it was too expensive to keep all the logs in good, safe condition, ceded it to private individuals again, who eventually turned it over to two small towns and the county. Constant maintenance on log palisades, as the logs below ground rot in a few years and need to be replace. Steady work, but not productive.
It is a really cool place. Visitors can climb into the corner blockhouses, peer out the rifle slits (and there are some slits in the floor, for defending the gates from above), etc. Certain times of the year, there are reenactment events held there, and the public is invited during daylight. But without the constant repairs and inspections, partly by the reenactors who use the fort, the place would continually be unsafe, and would long ago have ceased to exist except in photographs.
It's not any one country: it's the will of a government to keep things repaired and operational, based on whether the object/site is deemed important enough to include funding from stretched, dwindling budgets. I'm very sure that as the economic problems continue to mount, archeological and cultural funds will be cut further, and more artifacts and historical treasures everywhere will suffer. Sure, we Texans are proud of our own history, but paving roads, tending to special problems in society, and other fiscal drains take precedence over repairing old forts which have historical significance known only to a few.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/find ... rt_parker/
The Alamo, however, is mostly in pretty good repair, still a church in which people come to worship, and gets significant funding (although I'm sure the operators and their staff would like more). Why one site gets the money and another doesn't is not something I clearly understand, or could write intelligently.
Well, sort of. There is an 1830s wood palisade fort near here. At first, it was in predictable disrepair, was owned privately, then taken over by the State of Texas, which determined after restoration, that it was too expensive to keep all the logs in good, safe condition, ceded it to private individuals again, who eventually turned it over to two small towns and the county. Constant maintenance on log palisades, as the logs below ground rot in a few years and need to be replace. Steady work, but not productive.
It is a really cool place. Visitors can climb into the corner blockhouses, peer out the rifle slits (and there are some slits in the floor, for defending the gates from above), etc. Certain times of the year, there are reenactment events held there, and the public is invited during daylight. But without the constant repairs and inspections, partly by the reenactors who use the fort, the place would continually be unsafe, and would long ago have ceased to exist except in photographs.
It's not any one country: it's the will of a government to keep things repaired and operational, based on whether the object/site is deemed important enough to include funding from stretched, dwindling budgets. I'm very sure that as the economic problems continue to mount, archeological and cultural funds will be cut further, and more artifacts and historical treasures everywhere will suffer. Sure, we Texans are proud of our own history, but paving roads, tending to special problems in society, and other fiscal drains take precedence over repairing old forts which have historical significance known only to a few.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/find ... rt_parker/
The Alamo, however, is mostly in pretty good repair, still a church in which people come to worship, and gets significant funding (although I'm sure the operators and their staff would like more). Why one site gets the money and another doesn't is not something I clearly understand, or could write intelligently.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
