The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II…
Thus the Eastern Shore (properly, perhaps, pronounced Eastern Sho'), a climate paradise, with long penetrating fingers of the Bay extending inward to form frequent fine water highways, became a center of culture and development which even the once-disbelieved transfer of sea trade to Boston, New York and Philadelphia failed to abate or tarnish. This level land, boasting recurring views of wa…