Word: preservationist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even local preservationist G. Pebble Gifford,whose Harvard Square Defense Fund has battledcorporate encroachment by the likes of Dunkin'Donuts and McDonald's, was hardly non-plussed bynews of 7-Eleven's arrival...
...soon after she joined Wilmington's Design Review Board, Chamberlain discovered that the town's "good-ole-buddy network" of businessmen and politicians isn't always grateful for fresh perspectives. Teaming up with a preservationist group led by two other outsiders--John Baskin, 56, a ruminative writer from South Carolina, and former Bostonian Hawley, whose Orange Frazer Press specializes in books about Ohio--Chamberlain became involved in a crusade to create a downtown shopping-and-entertainment zone. Mayor Eveland and the city council liked the idea, but never came up with a way to finance it. The activists also tried...
Because Marcy Hawley is not only a preservationist but a parent as well, with a 16-year-old son at Wilmington High, the thin, cerebral publisher, who is married to the town's Presbyterian minister, has become a reluctant crusader for school reform. Serving on the local school system's Multicultural Advisory Board, she and other newcomers have been pushing for racial-sensitivity training and a minority-hiring program because the system, despite growing numbers of black, Hispanic, Japanese and Native American students, has just one nonwhite teacher...
Hoicka hopes to get his preservationist stance across at a Cambridge Historic Commission meeting tomorrow, a Cambridge Planning Board meeting on Nov. 18 and a Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals meeting at a date yet to be determined, all hurdles the Trust must overcome before it can begin construction...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I would never make a pledge to an extreme radical group who puts preservationist, radical environmentalism ahead of people and jobs...