Thoughts of Tulsa
The television show Watchmen recently concluded its first season with the amazing Regina King as its protagonist. Viewers saw the Greenwood Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma visually recreated with its depiction […]
Category Archives: historic architecture
Project Old is Gold: CONNECT
This section talks about documentation, which includes measuring, mapping and discovering more about a site. Here’s a pic of when I was documenting my family’s cemetery in rural Virginia. You […]
Project Old is Gold: EXPLORE Part 3 “Building Parts”
For part 3 of the Junior historic preservation patch guide it’s all about the building and its parts. Why was it built? Why does it look the way it does? […]
Project Old is Gold: EXPLORE “The National Trust for Historic Preservation”
Step 2 of the Junior preservation badge guide is all about the…National Trust for Historic Preservation! Of course, I was pretty tickled about this one given where I work… It […]
Project Old is Gold: It’s ON!
I’m celebrating Preservation Month with my best friend Kate aka The Globe Trotting Building Hugger by completing our Girl Scout Historic Preservation badges! You can follow along, or join in […]
Connecting to the Ancestors and Our Future
1830s cabin, Bacon’s Castle, Surry, VA Over and over again there was a recurring theme in the interviews that I did for my thesis: Using historic preservation as a way […]
At Year’s End
As this year comes to a close, I will catch you up on a few things. First, my thesis is off to the bindery! I am so excited to be done […]
It’s Preservation Month!
May is Preservation Month! It’s a great time of year to get out there and get involved. You can visit a fave historic site or property. Check out historic sites, […]
PLF Blog: Preservation Perceptions & Moving Forward
The National Trust asked me to write a post for their Preservation Leadership Forum blog about preservation perceptions and underrepresented groups and what we can do to try to be […]
Thanks for the Experience!
I had a wonderful time working at Decatur House and the White House Historical Association for the past two years. I was on contract as a researcher and the topics […]
