Preservation Georgia Online March 24-28, 2003 In this issue: NATIONAL REGISTER NEWS QUALITY GROWTH GRANT AVAILABLE ATLANTA'S LANDSCAPE LEGACY LECTURE SERIES PBS SERIES HISTORY DETECTIVES IN GEORGIA MESDA / UNCG SUMMER INSTITUTE QUINQUE FELLOWS PROGRAM PRESERVATION GEORGIA ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION PRESERVATION CALENDAR ************************************************************************ NATIONAL REGISTER NEWS Gainesville Commercial Historic District, roughly bounded by Broad St., Maple St., Academy St. and Green St., Gainesville, Hall County, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 2003. Read the full press release for more information at www.gashpo.org under What's New. ************************************************************************ QUALITY GROWTH GRANT AVAILABLE The next application deadline for a Quality Growth Grant from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) is Thursday, May 15, 2003. Eligible applicants are limited to Georgia municipalities, counties and consolidated governments. Please submit one original copy of the grant application and be sure to include the required supporting documentation (outlined on the application form). FAX copies will not be accepted. Grant award announcements can be expected in mid-June 2003. For an application and more information, please visit www.dca.state.ga.us/grants/qualitygrowthgrant.html. ************************************************************************ ATLANTA'S LANDSCAPE LEGACY LECTURE SERIES A lecture series on Atlanta's Landscape Legacy will be held Friday and Saturday, April 11-12, 2003 in McElreath Hall at the Atlanta History Center. The series is sponsored by the Southern Garden History, the Georgia Chapter of the Southern Garden History Society, and the Cherokee Garden Library. Lecturers include historian Darlene Roth, Atlanta landscape architect Spencer Tunnell, Georgia Tech professor Douglas C. Allen, author William R. Mitchell, Jr., and architectural historian Elizabeth M. Dowling. Topics include the influence of Olmsted's work in Atlanta, the work of Neel Reid and Philip Shutze, Atlanta's Northside garden heritage, and southern garden literature. Registration for both days is $25. For more information, contact Staci Catron-Sullivan at (404) 814-4046 or at Scatron-Sullivan@AtlantaHistoryCenter.com. ************************************************************************ PBS SERIES HISTORY DETECTIVES IN GEORGIA "History Detectives" is a new PBS series that investigates questions posed by the public about some of history's mysteries. Their team of historians and antiquities experts will set out to answer questions about some of Georgia's "undiscovered treasures": artifacts recently discovered whose history is unclear; historic homes and other buildings/ facilities whose rich past may not be fully known and family heirlooms with an unknown, or only partially known past. If you, a friend or neighbor have an object, home, or a building that you think fits this description, please contact Fred Grinstein at Lion Television: fredg@liontv.org or call 212-2068633 ext. 29. Or visit their PBS Web site at www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/. ************************************************************************ MESDA / UNCG SUMMER INSTITUTE The focus of the institute is on southern history and southern decorative arts before 1820 and is designed for graduate students and museum personnel interested in American history and material culture. The program curriculum includes lectures, discussions, workshops, artifact studies, research projects, and field trips. Topics will include historical archaeology, artifact analysis, connoisseurship, research methods, conservation principles, and social and economic history. Three hours of graduate credit in History or Interior Design are awarded through the University. The institute will take place June 22 through July 18, 2003 in Old Salem, WinstonSalem, North Carolina. The application deadline is April 21, 2003. For information on tuition costs and application materials, contact: Sally Gant, Summer Institute, MESDA, P.O. Box 10310, Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0310; 336-721-7360; or sgant@oldsalem.org. ************************************************************************ QUINQUE FELLOWS PROGRAM The Quinque Fellows Program is designed to increase and enhance the fund of conservation skills in both the United States and Scotland. It aims to achieve this principally by encouraging the exchange of knowledge and sharing of skills between conservation/preservation practitioners and professionals in these two countries. The application deadline is April 15, 2003. For more information, visit www.quinquefoundation.org/docs/programs/. ************************************************************************ PRESERVATION GEORGIA ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Preservation Georgia Online is produced by the Historic Preservation Division (HPD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. We hope that you find it useful and informative. Please send your comments, suggestions, and information via e-mail to: helen_talleymcrae@dnr.state.ga.us. All issues are posted to our Web site at www.gashpo.org under "What's New" and distributed via e-mail each week. To be added to our e-mail subscription list, please send an e-mail message to helen_talleymcrae@dnr.state.ga.us with "Preservation Georgia Online Subscribe" in the subject line and your name, organization affiliation, title, and telephone number in the body. If you do not wish to receive Preservation Georgia Online, please send an e-mail message to helen_talley-mcrae@dnr.state.ga.us with "Preservation Georgia Online Unsubscribe" in the subject line. ************************************************************************ PRESERVATION CALENDAR - new listings: April 12 Jubilee Day including Civil War living history and a historic homes tour Greensboro - cynthia@greeneccoc.org or 706-453-7592 - upcoming listings: Please note that the "Preservation Calendar" is a list of events and meetings of interest to preservationists and is not to be used for the detailed scheduling of meetings with HPD staff without contacting those individuals directly. MARCH Women's History Month March 28-30 - Georgia Trust Annual Meeting Milledgeville www.georgiatrust.org March 28-30 Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting Americus - http://as.clayton.edu/gah/ March 29 Park Day at Prater's Mill Varnell, GA www.pratersmill.org or 706-694-6455 March 29 Park Day 2003 at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Kennesaw - preregister by March 21st with Dotty Bonds at 770-427-4686, ext. 247. March 29 April 2 American Planning Association National Planning Conference Denver 312-786-6705 www.planning.org March 29 Georgia Civil War Commission meeting Atlanta 404-657-7294 APRIL - Confederate History Month April 3 6 - 2003 Organization of American Historians annual meeting: Social Justice and American History Memphis www.oah.org April 3-30 From Memphis to Atlanta: The Drum Major Returns Home exhibit - Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site Atlanta - www.nps.gov/malu/index.htm April 5 Savannah Ogeechee Canal Historical Marker Dedication - Georgia Historical Society Savannah - www.georgiahistory.com/Markers.htm April 6 8 Historic Preservation Development Council Spring Meeting Miami, FL lhampton@dworbell.com or 202-939-1788 April 9-13 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting Milwaukee, WI www.saa.org/meetings/index.html April 11 13 Southern Garden History Society Annual Meeting "Atlanta's Landscape Legacy" - Atlanta 404-814-4046 or SCatron-Sullivan@AtlantaHistoryCenter.com April 12 - Georgia Historical Society Annual Meeting Savannah www.georgiahistory.com/whatsnew.htm April 12 Jubilee Day including Civil War living history and a historic homes tour Greensboro - cynthia@greeneccoc.org or 706-453-7592 April 19 State Teachers and Agricultural College/Hubbard School Historical Marker Dedication - Georgia Historical Society Forsyth - www.georgiahistory.com/Markers.htm April 23-26 US/ICOMOS International Symposium Annapolis, MD www.icomos.org/usicomos April 23 27 National Council on Public History annual conference Houston www.ncph.org/2003%20Annual%20Mtg.htm April 23 27 Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting Denver 312-573-1365 www.sah.org April 24 27 Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference Richmond, VA www.civilwar.org April 26 2nd annual National Confederate Memorial Service Stone Mountain www.geocities.com/natconfedmemorial/ April 28 30 - 11th annual Newport Symposium- The Grand Acquisitors: Acquiring Art Through the Ages Newport, RI www.newportmansions.org/newport_symposium.html