Heritage

Heritage is what the present chooses to make of the past. That means that heritage is dynamic. It's a [changing:challenging] concept. And it also means that it tends to be [defined:precise] in opposition to much that is going on in the present. It's endangered. Where there is heritage, there is often a sense of [threat:identity] , you know, whether it's a building that's about to be bulldozed or a way of life that is dying out because of [economic:prolific] change. The heritage that we speak about in this country in terms of conservation tends to be a term that becomes very central or more central in new ways as the state [becomes:beckons] involved in this field of administering conservation.