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Along the banks of Yamuna River in Agra lie traces of the pleasure gardens designed by the Mughals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A recently signed international bilateral partnership between World Monuments Fund and the Archaeological Survey of India is concertedly working toward reviving the glory of two of these gardens—Mehtab Bagh and I’timad-ud-Daulah.

Steve Neuhaus, the Orange County Executive, recently claimed to have been “blind-sided” by a mandatory FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) review process, and said it could halt the $77 million renovation of the Orange County Government Center.

In the week when we remembered that 70 years ago both British and American Forces were jointly invading Normandy to achieve the end of the Second World War, Sulgrave Manor, the Northamptonshire home of George Washington’s ancestors, experienced a friendly and welcome invasion by some 200 members of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America and their guests.

The old city of Sibiu is a cultural hub of Southern Transylvania and one of the most entrancing urban environments in Central Europe, so it was with great excitement that I arrived there last April for a week-long workshop on the Fortified Churches of Southern Transylvania, a 2010 World Monuments Watch site. The workshop was organized by the Coordination Office for Fortified Churches (Leitstelle Kirchenburgen), with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest.