Taking My Preservation Act on the Road: Next Stop – Pinterest

I’m taking my Mainstreetrockymount.com blog on the road. The destination is my Pinterest page, where I have created a new board called:

Preservation • Restoration • Repurposing

If you are not familiar with Pinterest, it is one of the world’s largest visual libraries.

Think of it as a place where photographs, ideas, and inspiration are collected around a common theme. One of my boards is called If I Had a Dog, filled with beautiful pictures of King Charles Spaniels.

The new board I have created is devoted to preservation. It contains what Pinterest calls “pins,”visual stories built around my photographs, before-and-after restorations, architectural details, repurposed buildings, murals, historic train stations, Main Street storefronts, and preservation success stories.

My goal is simple: to visually show what is possible when communities choose to save rather than discard.

Every pin tells a story.

Some celebrate restoration.

Some explain architecture.

Some highlight creative repurposing.

Others simply remind us that old buildings still matter.

New pins await you. CLICK ON: https://www.pinterest.com/Stepheny38/preservation-restoration-repurposing/

Here are a few examples I created with ChatGPT. They are meant to be teaching moments. I hope you think they are as fabulous as I do.

It has been a wonderful collaboration and a new way of taking preservation into the Pinterest world.

Being able to create these images, I who cannot draw a straight stick, has been like a creative insulin shot. I could never have transformed my writing and photographs into these finished pins on my own. you can see we have developed a look that I hope will become recognizable.

I am feeling quite grown up as I enter the Pinterest world with these images to share with others.

You really can teach an old dog new tricks.

I’m here to prove it.

Some of you will recognize the Bungalow below. It is a Howell Street success that preservationist, Adrien Copland, restored. I took this photo, wrote the copy about a beautiful restoration. Visit Howell St. to see more wonderful restored bungalows.