“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~ William James
This sign and the house it belongs to came up in class a week ago. It sits in a historic neighborhood near downtown. Years ago, when the fight first started, I remember the owner being super mad at the city’s historic district zoning laws because they denied him some remodel he wanted to make. It made the news. They strung the porch in red, white, and blue streamers, wrapped the poles in protest. Pretty soon they erected the sign. This side says, “If the founding fathers thought taxation without representation was tyranny, they should try living in Lexington, KY in a historic district.” H. Whitehouse 1993. The other side says, “The declaration of Independence states that all men… ‘are endowed by their creator with unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’… but they don’t apply to residents of historic districts in Lexington, KY.” H Whitehouse 2003. It’s been a standoff ever since.
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