Preservation Georgia online, Nov. 8-12, 2004

Preservation Georgia Online November 8-12, 2004
In this issue: Georgia Veterans Remember Miss Freedom is back on top Georgia Geologic Survey News Augusta Canal Authority earns GPA award Public comment sought on proposed NAGPRA rule New additions to the Preservation Events Calendar Subscription Information
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Georgia Veterans Remember
From Pearl Harbor to the Battle of the Bulge, Georgia Valor: Remembering World War II features the recollections of Georgians who served in the armed services as well as the Red Cross. Premiering Thursday, November 11 at 8 PM on Georgia Public Broadcasting television stations, GV:RWWII was produced in partnership with the Atlanta History Center (www.AtlantaHistoryCenter.com), which is hosting a companion exhibit V for Victory: Georgia Remembers World War II opening Veterans Day and running through January 2006. For more information, visit http://www.gpb.org/gptv/programs/?progid=422.
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Miss Freedom is back on top
The 115-year-old copper statue was lowered onto her perch atop the Gold Dome of the state Capitol (on November 6). The Capitol matriarch was airlifted from the dome in July, packed up and taken to Canada because she was showing signs of a failing finish. The Toronto company which won the bid for the restoration stripped the paint down to the statue's copper core and repaired several pin-size holes in the sheet metal that forms her skin. Workers applied a fresh coat of white paint and inserted an internal armature to make her more stable, doubling her 800 pounds. The restoration was the first since 1958 and cost $235,000, Pereira said. It was done as the one of the final installments in an $86 million Capitol renovation. The scaffolding that surrounds the 22foot-tall structure will remain in place at least until the beginning of the year. Workers still have to regild the cupola as part of the Capitol building renovation project.
The statue of the female figure clasping a sword in her left hand and a lighted torch in her right was installed in 1889 and commemorates Georgia's war dead. The statue's origins are unclear because no one has been able find the original documents. An often-repeated story is that the statue was designed for the Ohio state Capitol, but Ohio legislators couldn't afford it. So the Toledo contractors who built Georgia's Capitol hauled the monument South and planted her atop the building in Atlanta.

-excerpted from an article by Saeed Ahmed, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 6, 2004
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Georgia Geologic Survey News
As of December 1, 2004, service to walk-in customers at the survey's map and publication sales office will be discontinued. Map and publication orders will be available through the Internet at http://ggsstore.dnr.state.ga.us. If you have any questions, please call Cindy A. Hynote at 404-657-6125.
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Augusta Canal Authority earns GPA award
The Georgia Planning Association presented the Augusta Canal Authority with its 2004 award for Outstanding Plan Implementation at the association's annual meeting October 14 at Brasstown Valley. The award recognized the successful achievement of the goals and initiatives envisioned in the 1993 Augusta Canal Master Plan that outlined the Canal's preservation and development potential. Coming full circle, the Augusta Canal Authority's Master Plan earned the Georgia Planning Association's Award for Outstanding Planning Project ten years ago, in 1994. The 2004 award recognized a decade of conscientious dedication to protecting and improving the Augusta Canal as a unique local, regional and national resource. For more information, visit www.augustacanal.com or contact Rebecca B. Rogers, Director of Marketing & External Affairs, at rrogers@augustacanal.com or 706-823-0440.
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Public comment sought on proposed NAGPRA rule
On October 20, the National Park Service published a proposed rule in the Federal Register - 43 CFR 10.13, Future Applicability - that will establish requirements under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) for museums and federal agencies that receive new collections or discover previously unreported existing collections that may include Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, or cultural patrimony. Written comments will be accepted until January 18, 2005. The text of the proposed rule and instructions for submitting comments are available online. http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/MANDATES/Future_Applicability_Proposed_Rule.htm
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New additions to the Preservation Events Calendar

Check the Events Calendar at www.gashpo.org for complete listings by date. Please note that items on the "Preservation Events Calendar" are events and meetings of interest to preservationists. It is not to be used for the detailed scheduling of meetings with HPD staff without contacting those individuals directly.
November 17 Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance Community meeting Lithonia www.arabiaalliance.org
December 2 - Dr. Elizabeth Dowling to lecture on Architecture's Enduring Language: Classical Architecture in the 21st Century - Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta http://carlos.emory.edu
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