Visions and Revisions: A special section celebrating the National Trust's 50th anniversary

- A Colloquy in Cyberspace
Led by Robert Campbell, six thoughtful people discuss the origins, maturation, and future of preservation in America and the role of the National Trust.

- Through the Years Compiled by Susan Reyburn
A time-line featuring the events that have shaped the preservation movement and the Trust.

- Fifty in Fifty Compiled by Arnold Berke
Memorable losses and gains over 50 years that have helped define historic preservation in America.

2050: A Place Odyssey
Certified cities of the flawless future, a golden age of retrofitting, and other forecasts.
By Anne Matthews

That Sense of Falling
We've wasted so much so fast, perhaps figuring we could store it on disks, the effects are incalculable.
By Edward Hoagland

The Joy of Looking
Stuffed with countless modest but nostalgic objects, antiques malls are a hit with both buyers and sellers
By Jean Dunbar

Men of Letters
A family of Rhode Island craftsmen knows there's more to carving stone than tapping a chisel.
By Kathleen Silver

Alley Oeuvre
How street life and community art imitate each other in San Francisco
By Leslie Allen

On the Waterfront
As fish packing gives way to cappuccino sipping, will Rockland, Maine, go the way of its touristy neighbor?
By David Riley

Preservation News

Transitions • The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse moves inland • A bank and other buildings are making unlikely but distinctive hotels • Affordable housing in abandoned hotels • Y2K spurs a run on pre-electric goods • Social-minded monks turn to spirits to benefit a 1908 church in San Francisco • The Tennessee courthouse cover-up • A rent hike threatens a Washington haven • Dark for 58 years, a Berkshires theater raises its curtain • A Sense of Cyberplace • Vacated suburban malls can become hospitals, schools, and more • Who's News