Re: [UC] Good intentions are not enough; it takes money, too

[Benseraglio2]

In a message dated 2/8/2005 10:55:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problems that plague historic house museums are real, but we should not confuse those issues with the historic districting debate going on in our neighborhood.  House museums need endowments and ticket sales to pay for staff, maintenance, and improvements.  If no one visits a house museum, it's a valid question to ask, "Should the museum continue to operate?" Interestingly or not, this is the situation which provides the background for the novel "The Murder Room" by P.D. James. The question of whether the museum should continue to operate is the crux. Of course in the novel one of the trustees, a psychiatrist, who is trying to block the continued operation of the museum, is murdered, burned to death in his fire-engine-red Jaguar in a truly horrific fashion. Not that I'm suggesting this as any sort of a remedy for the truly stultifying ongoing hysterical designation debate or anything . .         Ross Bender http://rossbender.org/hd.html