They are a type of community scrapbook, providing an important way to keep history alive. 

 

Those who pause to notice them are enriched by doing so.

  

 

 

 

                                                             

 

 

Our links to the past build a foundation for our future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our historical roots give us a clearer idea of what our present is and what our future should be.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For millennia, bronze has been chosen to create plaques and memorials because it is such a durable metal. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, the environment causes the bronze to darken and corrode,  

 

 

 

 

 

 

especially in the presence of water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This makes the plaques and memorials hard to read. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A weathered look implies neglect and neglect implies a lack of importance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 What originally was meant to keep an important memory alive, gradually becomes
just a dilapidated old relic that people bypass and ignore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Considerable time, creativity, as well as expense, is invested in each of these bronze tributes.  To see them lapse into neglect is a shame, but the worse tragedy to befall them, is to simply be forgotten.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That fate is inevitable, unless you take action with the information in this booklet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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