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newsletter, calendar and
selection of links to other IA Websites worldwide
are posted on our newly re-designed Chapter Web Site at
http://reality.sgi.com/csp/knight_sia
This very successful first year has been made possible by
the participation
of an activist membership and a hard-working Board of
Directors: Tony
Meadow, Randy Hees, Noel Kirshenbaum, Nate Shugars and Jay
McCauley. My heartfelt thanks - working with you has been a
pleasure
and a privilege. My best wishes to you all in this season of rekindling the
flame. Forward into the Past!
Andy Fahrenwald, Chapter President
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Saving Knight Foundry is a
declared mission of our Chapter. Our second
Chapter meeting was largely devoted to an in-depth status
update with
foundry owner Carl Borgh. It is now the consensus of the
Board of
Directors and other members that the time has come for the
Samuel Knight
Chapter to launch a fresh initiative to preserve Knight
& Co., Historic
Water-Powered Iron Foundry and Machine Shop for future
posterityas:
1. An operating
enterprise.
2. An historic
industrial interpretive site.
3. An
industrial living history skills preservation center.
These three roles are inextricably linked and present a
unique challenge to
the Northern California historic preservation community.
(The underlying
assumption that the foundry must be preserved as an
operating business
has become the consensus of all involved.) The Samuel
Knight Chapter is
in the process of filing as a Section 501(c)3 tax exempt
non-profit
organization and can act as organizational umbrella for the
Knight start-
up, unless or until a more appropriate entity appears.
This initiative will begin with a two day Chapter Tour and
Symposium on
January 17th and 18th. The goals of this event are to place
Knight & Co. in
its historic regional and industrial contexts, to bring to
the table all the
necessary talent needed for successfully restarting the
foundry and to work
together to create a preservation strategy. We will work in
advance of the
meeting to build support for the effort, to draft an
organizational plan and
to identify customers for the foundry. We call on the
participation of all of
you who value Knight Foundry.
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