Preservation Georgia online, Jan. 3-7, 2005

Preservation Georgia Online January 3-7, 2004
In this issue: Spring HPC training host community sought RDC planner news "If Walls Could Talk" television series is looking for historic homes in Georgia NPS Technical Preservation Services Web address changes New additions to the Preservation Events Calendar Subscription Information
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Spring HPC training host community sought
The Georgia Alliance of Preservation Commissions (GAPC) is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to local historic preservation commissions and design review issues for local governments. The GAPC sponsors training twice per year in the spring and fall; a different Georgia community hosts each training. The host city locations change each time so that the training can be close to different commissions around the state.
This spring, GAPC is looking for a vital and energetic host community in the southern portion of the state (south of Macon) to hold the training. The statewide historic preservation commission training brings attention to local preservation efforts, generates sales for local businesses and provides a way to get YOUR local elected officials, city staff and preservation commissioners to training quickly and easily!
If you want to have the spotlight shine on your town, sponsor the next two-day statewide HPC training. Call for a "Host City Checklist" at 706-583-8047 or email Jennifer Martin Lewis at jmlewis@uga.edu.
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RDC planner news
Patricia Barefoot has been hired as the new historic preservation planner at the Coastal RDC (www.coastalgeorgiardc.org). She will work part-time (16 hours a week) on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Patricia is a life-long resident of coastal Georgia, and eighth generation living in Glynn County. She worked as a National Park Service park ranger with the Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons since 1987. She has also published several "Images of America" books through Arcadia Publishing on Cumberland Island, St. Marys and Camden County and Brunswick. You may contact her at 912-264-7363, ext. 218.

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"If Walls Could Talk" television series is looking for historic homes in Georgia
"If Walls Could Talk", a weekly series on Home and Garden Television (HGTV) explores the many homes across the country with intriguing pasts. The series profiles homeowners who make surprising historical discoveries about their homes as they research and restore them. They're looking for enthusiastic, dynamic homeowners with great stories! The show only deals with residences and not businesses (B&B's can be an exception if the homeowner lives at the B&B). Contact Bonnie Bange at: BBange@highnoonproductions.com.
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NPS Technical Preservation Services Web address changes
Heritage Preservation Services programs of the National Park Service have a new web address: www.cr.nps.gov/hps/[program-name]/. (The old address was www2.cr.nps.gov) For web related questions, the address remains HPSInfo@nps.gov.
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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.
January 10 - Historic Preservation Division will hold a public information meeting concerning the proposed West Cloverhurst Avenue Historic District and the National Register of Historic Places at 6:30pm at the Athens-Clarke County Planning Department Auditorium (120 W. Dougherty Street, Athens) Athens contact the Athens-Clarke County Planning Department at 706-613-3515.
January 11 Dr. Jack Wynn will give a presentation about the Scull Shoals site in Greene County - Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society Atlanta a.vegotsky@worldnet.att.net

January 18 - Sara Hines Martin will present a slide presentation based on her book "Walking Atlanta" to the Newcomers Club of Cobb County - Marietta contact Sandy Flock at 770-579-9527.
January 20, Sara Hines Martin will speak about her book "More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Georgia Women" at the Smyrna Library - 770-431-2860.
January 27-29 - Rosalyn Carter Exhibit from the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains Ga. - Gordon Lee Mill, Chickamauga - contact Beverly Foster at 770-593-1262
February - Walker County's African Americans in the Police Force - Georgia Public Library Exhibit - Chickamauga - contact Beverly Foster at 770-593-1262
February 19 - Genealogy/Family History/Preservation Seminar - Rossville - 770593-1261 or 706-375-9863 to register and for more information.
February 6 - Northwest Georgia's First Generations of Freedmen, lecture by Beverly Foster, president of WCAAHAA, Inc. - West Armuchee - contact Beverly Foster at 770-593-1262
February 20 - Northwest Georgia's First Generations of Freedmen, lecture by Beverly Foster, president of WCAAHAA, Inc. - Chickamauga - contact Beverly Foster at 770-593-1262
February 24-25 - Tax Credit Graduate Course (conference): When Housing Credits Meet Historic Credits - Miami http://www.ipedinc.net/content/2005_02_24.asp
July 17-30 - Heritage Conservation Network's Post & Beam Conservation Workshop - Waynesville, NC - www.heritageconservation.net
October 9-22 - Heritage Conservation Network's Horsehair Plaster Conservation Workshop - St. Marys, Ga. - www.heritageconservation.net
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