E358 - Remembering Tom Moriarity: Why Preservation Matters

Today's episode is a re-release of an episode that originally aired in 2020 with guest Tom Moriarity, a legendary preservationist who passed away in late September. Tom was a pioneer in historic preservation, co-founding the Main Street program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which has since revitalized over 2,000 towns and generated $115B in reinvestment. 

In this revisited conversation we discuss why do we do what we do and why don’t others understand why it’s so important?

Those are the driving questions that prompted Tom Moriarity to dive into a discourse on what prese...