Jomantas Alfredas (comp.) Wooden heritage in Lithuania

Translated by Vertimo namai. — Vilnius: Kultūros paveldo departamentas prie LR kultūros ministerijos. R. Paknio leidykla, 2011. — 149 p.It is common knowledge that wooden buildings catch fire easily and can be equally easily claimed by it, taking no one by great surprise. The first decade of the 21st century has seen the burning of wooden buildings to become quite a normal occurrence in the historic suburbs of Vilnius, and in particular in the Šnipiškės area, close to the centre of the city. For several years, residents of this historic suburb disturbed by the sirens of ire trucks and wisps of smoke have been looking around anxiously to determine from which side the wind is blowing in one end or the other of the suburb. his is the way business has coveted the attractive areas of Šnipiškės, gradually regaining a larger and larger area and continuing the destruction of this wooden district, which had already begun in Soviet times. The places of these former small wooden buildings mostly constructed at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, once planted with gardens and orchards, full of lowers, vegetables, birds, and the laughter of playing kids, were let overgrown with nettles and covered with growing heaps of rubbish, as it took quite a while for the new owners to realize their plans.