It's been wildly exciting around here. I sometimes think the battle over Broughal School is the second fiercest historic preservation fight around. My choice for the first? The Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which at an important level certainly IS about preservation--and also, of course, about destruction; and about a whole world of meanings, spiritual and otherwise.
We have now been presented with word that the boiler room and teachers' room in Broughal have collapsed; and with pictures to prove this.
Collapsed or "been collapsed?" Since I can't prove anything, I can't do anything but wonder. Let us remember that just a few months ago the administration took hammers and other tools to this building's facade. I am one of those who will always believe that this was an attempt to destroy the school's historic significance. But again, I can't prove anything. Just wondering.