Why, oh why has Mr. Cooper failed to defend the aesthetic and historical integrity of his great-grandfather’s house, The Breakers? The desecration going on there, that seeks to make his mom and other Vanderbilt opponents along with outraged neighbors and scholars seem to be elitists, is instead a fight of David versus Goliath. We preservationist feel strongly that the public are entitled to an experience visiting the house, as close to what it was in the Vanderbilts time as possible.

Yesm ground has been broken, the project is underway, but in New York, similarly unsuitable alterations to the Frick and the NY Public Library were prevented at the last minuet. Mr. Cooper says, he must cover the story, no be a part of the story, but even apart from covering Mrs. Cooper’s book and TV special, he often is central to the tale he tells: doggedly confronting officiating officials and leaders into betraying their ill intent.

Why does this matter? It matters because apart from the NY Central EE changing the world, the Whitney museum and his mother’s design efforts, the greatest thing ever accomplished by Anderson Cooper’s family, besides his career as a truth seeker, are the houses they built and the best of those is The Breakers. i AND A FEW OTHERS HAVE GONE UP AND RISKED ARREST TO PROTEST THE OUTRAGE OF THE BREAKERS, HE SHOULD HELP GIVE US A HEARING.

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    Michael Henry Adams

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    Born in Akron, Ohio, Michael Henry Adams is a writer, lecturer, historian, tour guide, preservationist, connoisseur, epicurean and activist, living in Harlem.