David S. Rotenstein schrieb:
> The same day (Wednesday July 28, 1999) that the National Trust for Historic
> Preservation issued a letter to Pittsburgh City Council uring the
> preservation of the Pittsburgh Wool Company, council members voted to give
> Pittsburgh mayor Tom Murphy "the power to use eminent domain if he has to in
> order to acquire the wool company property and then sell it to Heinz for a
> major warehouse and distribution center," the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
> reported today (Thursday July 29, 1999). Condemnation proceedings may begin
> at any time. Reports on yesterday's Pittsburgh City Council Action were
> reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
> <http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990729kumer5.asp> and Pittsburgh
> Tribune-Review <http://triblive.com/news/pwool0729.html>
>
> Upset by efforts by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the
> Society for Industrial Archaeology, the Institute for Justice and concerned
> historians and the general public from across the globe who have appealed to
> preserve the Pittsburgh Wool Company, Pittsburgh mayor Tom Murphy urged
> these outsiders to mind their own business. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
> reported:
>
> [ Murphy was upset that some out-of-state people, including University of
> South Carolina historian David Rotenstein, plus lawyers from two nonprofit
> groups in Washington, D.C., had intervened in the dispute. The lawyers, from
> the Institute for Justice and the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
> have volunteered to do a legal defense for Kumer if the matter lands in
> court.
> "The worst thing would be for outsiders to define the future for
> Pittsburgh," Murphy said. "The danger is from outsiders who want to stick
> their noses in and jeopardize our largest manufacturing facility."
>
> Rotenstein, who has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, said he was
> opposed to "destroying much of Pittsburgh's past to satisfy a greedy
> neighbor" such as Heinz.
>
> He said Kumer's wool-pulling factory was built in 1883 and is "the last wool
> pullery in the U.S."
> "Pittsburgh is about to destroy something that isn't available anywhere
> else. If you destroy all ties to Pittsburgh's past, it loses its uniqueness.
> It becomes homogenized and is just another name on the map," Rotenstein
> said. ]
>
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>
> If you have not already read the background information on the Pittsburgh
> Wool issue, please visit my website <http://davidsr01.home.mindspring.com>
> for additional information and for e-mail addresses, fax numbers and mailing
> addresses of Pittsburgh City officials and the Heinz Company.
>
> Sorry, again, for the long post.
>
> David S. Rotenstein, Ph.D., RPA
>
> [disclaimer: the comment in this post are my own and do not reflect the
> opinions of the University of South Carolina or the State of South
> Carolina.]
> __________________________________________________________
> David S. Rotenstein, Ph.D., RPA
> Curator of Research and Folklife
> McKissick Museum
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, SC 29208
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