Ehhhhhhhh, I think you’re overstating Mike’s participation in that whole project based on those videos; it’s really much more Massari who is trying to rally him into using the LP campaign as a springboard to getting restorations underway, but Mike is pretty stubborn and resistant to getting help from others and not doing things all himself, including financing.
That does sound more like it. I can commend him on wanting to keep the project in his own hands; it’s his baby. But I really wish he would look into crowd-funding.