Can Holyoke be Saved?
Thank you for posing “Historic Preservation’s Biggest Question: What do we save?” and including a strong article on the loss of a beloved building in Holyoke, Massachusetts [“The Life and Death of the Skinner Coffee House,” May/June 2008]. Yankee Magazine has a long tradition of recognizing the importance of historic preservation to our quality of life — dating back to the days when it sponsored the Yankee Intern Program in the National Trust’s Northeast office. Readers may be interested in our annual announcement of “America’s 11 Most Endangered Places,” [scheduled this year for] May 20. Find out more at: PreservationNation.org Peter H. Brink, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C. Having grown up in Holyoke, written a book about Holyoke, and been intimately involved in the fight to stop the city’s recent demolitions, I feel compelled to write a followup. Holyoke was the fire capital of New England in the 1970s, yet there were more municipally sanctioned demolitio
