A 32-day fundraising campaign to preserve a huge and historic Acadian church in western Nova Scotia has raised only a fraction of the funds needed to save the building. The chairman of Nation Prospère Acadie, a non-profit group leading the campaign—which ended Tuesday—says about $116,000 of the $2.5-million goal has been donated toward repairing Saint…

“Filoli is too beautiful to be private.”—Lurline Roth In 1975, Lurline Matson Roth gifted her beloved Filoli House and Garden to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. One year later, Filoli, located at 85 Canada Road, Woodside, California, opened to the public. It remains open to this day. The entrance to the Filoli House. (Courtesy…

The town of Independence, California, on historic U.S. Highway 395 in the Owens Valley — bordered on the west by the Sierra Nevada and the east by the White Mountains — is so small you could blink and miss it. Travelers heading north tend to zip through the town and past its historic courthouse to…

LOS ANGELES—Following a series of thefts of nearly century-old bronze street lights from the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge, the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting decided on Jan. 5 it will remove and try to preserve the remaining lights. Officials first learned of the street lights being targeted on Sept. 13, 2021, when three lights were stolen over a span of…

The South Carolina low country, the region along the state’s coast, immediately conjures up images of live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, wildlife that flourishes in the dense marshland, fresh seafood, grits, and platefuls of gumbo or good barbecue. But in addition to its natural beauty and culinary appeal, the South Carolina low country…