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STILL STANDING

istoric homes, structures, and monuments, these treasures are found across the country—and they don’t take care of themselves. As director of the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center, MOSS RUDLEY oversees efforts to keep them all in good condition. Armed with a degree in business administration, a minor in engineering, and years in the preservation field, he directs a program based on the Monocacy Battlefield outside Frederick, Md., developing skills to deal with everything from monuments to pest management. Many projects are Civil War related, but others include restoration of structures on the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara, Calif., and fortifications at El

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