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: preservation
Project Old is Gold: Heirlooms
One section of the Project Old is Gold historic preservation patch guide asks about what personal heirlooms do we preserve? One of the only things I wanted from my late […]
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: EXPLORE “What is Historic Preservation?”
Somewhere Kate is like “Elle! Get going on Project Old is Gold and do your guide!” The first module of the Historic Preservation Patch Junior Guide is all about exploring […]
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 […]
I’m Just Going to Say It…
I’ve had that look on my face before. When you have a colleague question if something is relevant to “everyone” or a noted historian deem a chapter in a book […]
Of Preservation and Protest
Preservation and protest go hand-in-hand. We preservationists are not unfamiliar to it. We even welcome it. When crises and issues arise we are often the first to be like “BRING. […]
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