Greetings,
   I do hope you do not supppose that folks will have time to set about
writing a snail mail to your friend or calling abraod for more information.
    Actually, the reason I am replying, and to the list at large, is that I
seem to recall a cry-out some time ago (at least over 3 years) for listers
to email to SAVE the house by transforming it into a museum with a sentence
or two regarding Muir's importance. Many of us did this.
    So who designed the Museum? It is hard to believe it was in "total
secrecy" as the intent was well-netted across the pond and probably beyond?

Lois Brynes
Deep-Time Associates


> From: Lois Herr <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:28:00 -0500
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Proposed Interpretive Plan for John Muir's Home
>
> I am sending this for a friend.  Please respond to the address listed at the
> end of the message.  Lois Herr
>
> Dear friends,
> I apologise for sending you an unsolicited email, but our need is great, and I
> hope that you would want to help us save John Muir's historic birthplace in
> Scotland, which is under threat of imminent destruction. As you may well be
> aware, Muir spent some time in Illinois working in the carriage factory where
> he
> was temporarily blinded.
>
> Please visit the website I have created at:
> http://www.savejohnmuirhouse.org.uk - and see if you feel moved to help.
>
> John Muir's house in Dunbar, Scotland, is one of the few sites of global
> environmental pilgrimage, and is as valued much as Aldo Leopold's Sand
> Counties
> Shack, Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, or John Burroughs's cabin at Slabsides.
>
> John Muir House was built in 1780, and Muir as born there in 1838; it is a
> truly
> ancient building - created forty years before the death of Napoleon and some
> time before the American Constitution was drafted.  An appalling architectural
> 'renovation' scheme has been devised and approved in total secrecy, which
> proposes to gut and destroy all three floors of this historic listed building.
> Nothing will be left but the walls, the roof and an empty stone void. In this
> eviscerated box, the 'radical' architect Richard Murphy proposes to install a:
> "free-standing, high-tech, timber framed tower", packed with plasma screens,
> VDUs, computers and exhibition panels.
> He proposes that tourists and school groups should climb this tower via an
> internal staircase and peep out through wooden window openings, to peer at the
> ruined interior walls of the Muir House, on which he will affix exhibition
> panels.
>
> We regard this as brutal, heritage vandalism of the most appalling kind.  And
> we
> need your help to stop it.
>
> I append a few letters and articles for your information.  We have just nine
> days left to lodge objections, but we are appealing to the Scottish Government
> to 'call-in' the planning application and instigate a full Public enquiry -
> and
> to stop this vandalism.
>
> HOW CAN YOU HELP?
> I hope you would help us oppose the destruction of John Muir's original
> birthplace by:
>
> a. Visiting the website and reading about the issues
> b. Distribute this email to your members who are on email
> c. Write a letter of objection in a personal, or an official capacity
> e. Use your journal or other media to communicate this issue to your
> membership
> network
>
> I apologise for sending out a 'round robin' but I am 3000 miles away and just
> harvested names from your website. I am not normally in the habit of
> cold-calling people, even if we share a common mission to conserve Nature.
>
>
> Graham White
> Save John Muir Campaign
> Broxmouth Gardens
> Broxmouth Park
> DUNBAR EH42 1QW
> Scotland, UK
> +44 1368-863 478
>
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