LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Historic Preservation Partners:
On behalf of the Arizona Preservation Foundation’s Board of Directors, I would like to thank you for attending our 6th Annual Historic Preservation Conference. Since its inception in 2003 the Conference has been an invaluable tool to the community. By bringing together planning officials, preservation advocates, and citizens interested in urban and rural revitalization we are creating a catalyst to take the preservation movement in Arizona to the next level.
This year’s theme, “Preservation on the Line”, is a nod to the border towns of Santa Cruz County. Surrounded by lush mountain ranges and the pristine beauty of the Sonoran desert, this region offers a remarkable blend of the big city, quaint suburb and rustic small town. Surrounded by Patagonia Lake in the north, the Atascosa Mountains in the west, San Rafael Valley in the east, and Mexico to the south, Santa Cruz County offers a diversity of landscape and culture hard to find elsewhere. This intermingling of modernity with the ranching traditions of the Old West creates a cultural richness that makes the site an ideal location for this year’s Conference.
Areas like Santa Cruz County identify us to the world and to ourselves. By attending this Conference and showing your support for our state’s history, you are helping preserve Arizona’s legacy and cultural identity. What we do today determines the community, state, country, and world that we live in tomorrow.
Sincerely yours,
Greg Michael
President, Board of Directors
Published in the 2008 Historic Preservation Conference program for the Arizona Preservation Foundation. June 2008.
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