In the past couple of days, there have been some great posts on other historic preservation and history blogs:
- The MyHomeTown Ohio blog, which I have mentioned several times, most recently posted a story about The Most Historic Small Town in Ohio. The post describes the efforts of ePodunk, a web site dedicated to the "power of place" in American communities, to identify the most historic small towns in the U.S. and establish a Historic Small Towns Index. EPodunk uses four criteria: the number of individual listings on the National Register of Historic Places, the size of any existing National Register Historic Districts, the average age of housing, and the use of the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit. Based on this criteria, ePodunk's Historic Small Towns Index identifies New York State's most historic small towns as Hudson (Columbia County), Essex (Essex County), and Cooperstown (Otsego County).
- New York City's Historic Districts Council Newsstand provides a link to the Gotham Gazette's Reading NYC Book Club's transcript from a February 27, 2007 discussion of historic preservation with Kevin Walsh, author of the recently published book, Forgotten New York (based on a popular web site of the same name), and Roberta Brandes Gratz, former New York Post reporter, author of and The Living City and Cities Back from the Edge (with Building Conservation guest lecturer and Main Street revitalization expert Norman Mintz), and a Commissioner on New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission.
- The My Florida History blog, created and maintained by a historical research consultant in Tampa, Florida, recently wrote this post about numerous history-related blogs and has also added a blogroll feature with links to more history blogs (including, I am happy to say ours -- thanks!). Today's post talks about 300-400 brief radio program podcasts on the Florida Humanities Council's web site.
I will be adding more links to this blog's sidebar as time allows (scroll down to see them), so please be sure to check back -- and thanks for reading!
