You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone ...

"THEY paved paradise and put up a parking lot..."

So went a line from Big Yellow Taxi, the protest song written by Joni Mitchell in 1969.

I think of that song when confronted with the almost weekly reports of threats to our culture and heritage.

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