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DEL. Raymond R. (Andy) Guest Jr. made a telling point at the conference on historic preservation held last week in Culpeper, but it is one which is often overlooked by the persons who are most interested in saving something of our heritage for future generations.
The point: Unless ordinary citizens are convinced of the necessity of historic preservation, and good community planning in general, then the effort is not going to receive the public and political support that is necessary for its success.
As Andy Guest described them, the people who must be convinced are the ones with car payment and tax problems, the ones so involved in the necessities of day to day living that they have little time for other considerations. Unless you can convince these people that handsome architecture from the past is of value to him, his children and his grandchildren — and valuable in rather direct ways, at that, as opposed to purely esthetic considerations—then the destructionof beautiful and .P historic structures and landscapes will continue. There won’t be enough political clout
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