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About Preservation Online

A Message from the Editor: The folks who make the paper on which our magazine is printed and those other folks who deliver it to your door have not made it any easier this year for us to give you everything we can for your membership buck. Luckily word has reached us lately of something called the World Wide Web, through which, apparently, we can deliver news, pictures, and information of other sorts directly into your computer, neatly sidestepping those paper and postage boys. We intend, of course, to continue to make six issues a year of this magazine we very much like making, and printing it on as many pages of paper as we can possibly afford, and mailing it out to you. But at a new Web site called PreservationOnline.org we are now able to supplement that bimonthly ration with new stories every day and every week.

The site doesn't simply recycle stories that have already appeared in the magazine. Each working day the site offers up a news brief related to preservation, and each week it brings you a story that looks at a preservation topic in more depth. A department called Preservation 911 gives you an opportunity to let the rest of us know if you face a preservation emergency—a building near you in danger, a road plan that threatens your neighborhood, an architectural monstrosity on your Main Street, a telecommunications tower erected overnight that now dwarfs your historic courthouse. We make available to you an audience that can offer you advice or at least share your outrage. The site also gives you more information about stories appearing in the print magazine, offers practical information about us and our advertisers, links you to an ambitious new National Trust site, and makes it easy for you to renew your Trust membership or give memberships to your friends.

It's a small site now, but we think it's handsome and easy to use. We've already got a list of ideas for expanding it, and as soon as we have our IPO … No, that's a joke. We promise not to get Web fever. We'll enlarge the site slowly, and concentrate on giving you the news and telling you the stories about preservation, holding to the journalistic standards of the print magazine itself. When you've finished reading the magazine, remember that there's more each day at PreservationOnline.org.

—Robert Wilson, June 2001