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I like your public awareness campaign ideas and even more so now that I've been to the Council of Europe (http://www.coe.int) and UNESCO.  There's a serious power vacum there and it's ripe for the pickings if there's a leader in the house...

ripple~got a link for the www.unesco.org (cultural preservation) database page?

ha ha pebble tripper

I forgot my intro but here's some links

Scholarships for people wanting a career in historic preservation(study law too!). Funds attendence to conferences. Specializes in providing funds to people from all heritages.
http://www.nationalt...lp/colodny.html

Worldwide grants to increase education about, and appreciation of, monuments for local citizens or tourists. Usually $5,000 - $20,000 USD but sometimes up to $100,000. http://www.tourismca...t We Do/Grants/

Some of these places want you to be a non-profit corporation (or the local equivilent) but others fund individuals. I set up a n-p in the States and it wasn't 'hard' or expensive. Some foundations will even sponsor buying land that monuments are on.

Spectacular collection of grant info by the Michigan State library and it has lots of international links; check out the database pages too. http://www.lib.msu.e...ts/2sgalpha.htm.http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/fcguid1h.htm

I didn't realize there were so many monolith sites, Jim. That's a great thought ~ and you are right about them being 'Mom's Lith' sites, people don't always want their important things (records...) to be altered. I do think it would be cool to see missing pieces replaced. I'd be curious to see if there were projects underway to mine new ones.

cameras may not be as expensive as one could imagine, btw. Motion cameras with two way audio are $59 at Radio Shack, $79 for color. A solar powered light is about $3, so the power source might not be a problem either. Remote viewing by computer if you had manpower concerns? but i do think that plenty of interested people will be found when y'all have yoar way with the awareness campaign.

52 friends in a monolithic time share? ha ha time share, the jokes in this forum are going to be fun... camp out next to y'oar favorite monument once a year for a week?

If one had a mind for it, they might sell lottery tickets for a chance to spend the week (or year) at "_____" < insert favorite monolith.

$30,000 in ticket sales could finance a year round host and free air fare for the winning ticket holder. I see grad students everywhere plunking down $1 for a summer vacation doing "______"<insert favorite monolith fantasy.

Yea, I want to buy a ticket but I want to bring Moby. Living under a monolith seems very advantageous.