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Topic: American History - One man's kind acts of preservation

Scott Martin
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posted 05-04-2015 03:11 PM

All over the Silver Salon Forums members have lamented about the disappearing art/artifacts/craftsmanship of Early American Silver & Silversmithing history.

One man, David M. Rubenstein, has been giving away a portion of his fortune to preserve large scale parts of American history. See the 60 Minutes segment.

the Silver Salon Forums,
WEV's American Silversmiths Genealogy Project,
Old Newbury Crafter's,
the many fantastic disappearing (to melt) silver collections
and more
are not large enough critical conservation architectural/maintenance types of projects to be of preservation interest to someone like David M. Rubenstein. But it would be nice .....

I think it is great that he is personally reviewing and making the decisions about what will get his support/help.

I hope our country sees more of this type philanthropy and wakes up about our country's disappearing history.

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