Sometimes You Need to Destroy a Perfectly Good Mansion

Why Preserving the Past Shouldn't Mean Foreclosing our Future

Recently, the Times had two related pieces that, despite being about a city that’s over 500 times larger than Fairhaven, hold some important lessons for our town.

Binyamin Applebaum, in the piece I Want a City, Not a Museum revisits the homes of previous generations of his family and remarks:

I take pleasure in wandering around this museum of family histo…