Historic, Green and Profitable

by Donovan D. Rypkema, Traditional Building Conference, Boston, March 8, 2007

Why Visit Vermont Downtowns?
by Paul Bruhn, Executive Director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont

What Makes a Great Village?
by Paul Bruhn, Executive Director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont

10 Tips for Managing a Historic Preservation Project
The Preservation Trust of Vermont

Economics, Sustainability & Historic Preservation
by Donovan D. Rypkema at the National Trust Annual Conference, October 1, 2005

Endangered Vermont: Compromise Will Produce a Great Solution
by Paul Bruhn, Executive Director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont.

Endangered Vermont? 
by Tom Slayton, Editor of Vermont Life Magazine.

A Wake-Up Call on Wal-Mart
by Chester H. Liebs, landscape historian, professor emeritus of history at UVM and founding director of the University's Historic Preservation Program.

Endangered Places
by Jay Parini, poet, novelist and biographer who teaches at Middlebury College.

A Plan for Sensible Development
Sabina Haskell, Editor, Bennington Banner  

Protecting Vermont’s Integrity
by David A. Donath, Woodstock Foundation

Annual Historic Preservation Conference Keynote Addresses
Addresses from the annual conferences from 2000 to the present.

Vermont Public Radio commentaries by Chester Liebs, 1999-2002
Author, and observer of the everyday landscape, Chester Liebs is Professor Emeritus of History and Founder of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Vermont.  Here he shares his sage point of view on our heritage and the cultural landscape.

Selected Commentaries, 1981-2003
Included here are essays by various authors on preservation, downtown vitality, Vermont heritage and more.