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		<title>The poet&#8217;s house</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/05/14/the-poets-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1893, an acclaimed Atlanta poet built a fashionable wood home in the Atlanta Suburban Land Company&#8217;s East End subdivision. The two-story vernacular Victorian gable-front home with turned porch posts and spindlework stands out among its one-story cottage neighbors in &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/05/14/the-poets-house/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A letter to the new Secretary of the Interior</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/25/a-letter-to-the-new-secretary-of-the-interior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Preservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tom King and several other preservation colleagues drafted a letter to Sally Jewell, the new Secretary of the Interior. The letter asks Secretary Jewell to revamp the federal historic preservation process: We urge you to conduct a full review of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/25/a-letter-to-the-new-secretary-of-the-interior/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The best will ever?</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/22/the-best-will-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Probably not. But this is the best one I&#8217;ve read in a while. Wills and other probate instruments are pretty ordinary, almost formulaic, documents. Most of the time. I recently came across a will filed in 1942 in Decatur, Georgia, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/22/the-best-will-ever/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Preservation Fund: Decatur report</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/17/historic-preservation-fund-decatur-report/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/17/historic-preservation-fund-decatur-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decatur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African American heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equalization schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historic preservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1970, the State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices have received up to $46.9 million in annual matching grants through the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) to assist in expanding and accelerating their historic preservation activities. Funding is used to pay &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/17/historic-preservation-fund-decatur-report/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Roadside architecture: Blue Mountain, Maryland</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/16/roadside-architecture-blue-mountain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/16/roadside-architecture-blue-mountain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederick County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s more to rural Frederick County, Maryland, than Camp David. Nearby, there were other twentieth century resorts that housed people of lesser means than U.S. presidents. The Blue Mountain House (F-6-095) is a 1½-story frame house located south of Blue &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/16/roadside-architecture-blue-mountain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A really thin line</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/08/a-really-thin-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eruvim]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What would a long tourist weekend in Manhattan be without a few museums and walking tours? It&#8217;s hard to not mix work and play and after the first day spent in the New York Public Library&#8217;s manuscripts room, day two &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/08/a-really-thin-line/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Silver Spring&#8217;s Read house</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/01/read-house/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/01/read-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Corners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In February 2013 I got an email from the Jacquie Bokow, editor of the Northwood News. &#8220;Hey, Dave!  Do you know anything about the property at 503 Dennis Avenue?,&#8221; Jacquie wrote. The property is in our old Maryland neighborhood and &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/04/01/read-house/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gentrification and the inner ring suburb</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/03/30/gentrification-and-the-inner-ring-suburb/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/03/30/gentrification-and-the-inner-ring-suburb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decatur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gentrification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In February I was invited to write a guest post for the Tikkun Daily blog on the impacts of gentrification in Decatur, Ga. It bridges the posts I wrote last year for the National Council on Public History blog and &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/03/30/gentrification-and-the-inner-ring-suburb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Planning a New South residential suburb</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/03/25/southern-suburb/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/03/25/southern-suburb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decatur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historic preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suburbs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.historian4hire.net/?p=8149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the years bracketing the turn of the 20th century, Atlanta, Georgia&#8217;s periphery was filling in with residential subdivisions. The city&#8217;s development pattern was comparable to other regional cities, like Charlotte, North Carolina, and to cities farther north like Baltimore &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/03/25/southern-suburb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Precious Bryant: 1942-2013</title>
		<link>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/01/18/precious-bryant-1942-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/01/18/precious-bryant-1942-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rotenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant had died January 12 at age 71. I interviewed Bryant in 1990 for the defunct Atlanta alt-weekly Footnotes and I shot a roll of Plus-X of her performing &#8230; <a href="http://blog.historian4hire.net/2013/01/18/precious-bryant-1942-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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