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After reading last week's article on Barton Academy's preservation, I emailed on of the ladies in charge at the Historic Mobile Preservation Society. I always see commercials on the history channel for a program called Save Our History. Basically the program takes historically signifficant buildings and helps preserve them in some form(Example on the commercial is an old hotel in some town converted to lofts). I asked if HMPS had considered using this program. To my delight she said that HMPS is a local partner of the National Trust, which is the sponsor of the program I mentioned above. She said they are working on an application for this program currently. So in short, there is some momentum in the Save Barton movement now that the school board is out. No mention of what might be done with the structure.