Monthly Archives: November 2012

It is rather apparent

Posted on November 30, 2012 by indyjerry77

I laughed out loud at the brief editorial today by Michael Sales – and even more over the commenters posted on the online Daily News. They anti-historic preservationists and especially their radical Libertarian wing are trying furiously to convince everyone … Continue reading →

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Who is going to crawl back into their cave?

Posted on November 27, 2012 by indyjerry77

There are two interesting groups of people in Newburyport.      One group was extremely apathetic, didn’t hardly vote, couldn’t even tell you who was mayor and often few would even step inside City Hall.       Worst of all, they knew nothing about … Continue reading →

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It takes courage.

Posted on November 26, 2012 by indyjerry77

It took courage to go against the tearing down of deteriorated urban centers but Newburyporters did it and bucked the system. It took courage for the city’s leaders to take the signals coming from the citizens and translate that into … Continue reading →

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Last Minute Review

Posted on November 25, 2012 by indyjerry77

I thought I would provide some videos to watch on the local historic district ordinance.      Considering we’ve had city council committee sessions, information Sessions, Q & A forums, public hearings and more public hearings; it would be nice to present … Continue reading →

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Powder House Tour

Posted on November 18, 2012 by indyjerry77

It was quite significant to see the grand opening of Newburyport’s first Heritage Park centered around the Powder House.        Contrary to many less familiar with history, powder houses played a vitally important role in the birth of our nation.     And … Continue reading →

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Political Issues

Posted on November 18, 2012 by indyjerry77

As we begin to seek councilors who actually care about our future as an historic seaport community that is a ‘destination’ that lives off heritage tourism; we will need to set some goals that will need to be accomplished.        Some … Continue reading →

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Why can’t we have it like it used to be!?!

Posted on November 17, 2012 by indyjerry77

I frankly hated formatting the first Planning & Development Committee public hearing – to me it was a wasted two hours! If they had done it correctly, each citizen speaking would have contributed their two minutes to the ordinance details … Continue reading →

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We must do the planting!

Posted on November 16, 2012 by indyjerry77

Once, historic preservationists simply refused to get themselves involved politically in the City.      They literally hid inside a cave of the mind pretending that political affairs were not important to preserve our historic architecture.       They loved the coolness of the … Continue reading →

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Arguments based on Absurdity

Posted on November 15, 2012 by indyjerry77

It is bad enough that the anti-historic preservationists started off with a lie (property rights are being ‘taken’ away) and then reinforced that with a document that contains fifteen lies; and to compound that lie with more lies and misinformation. … Continue reading →

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The Spouting off has ended (Thankfully!)

Posted on November 14, 2012 by indyjerry77

It has amazed me that people have been so daring as to spout off brazen lies on the editorial page or to demonstrate to the public their ignorance with incredible fabrications of fantasy as in today’s editorial. Apparently national politics … Continue reading →

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