Preservation Georgia online, Jan. 23-27, 2006

Preservation Georgia Online January 23-27, 2006 In this issue: 2006 General Assembly Update #1 Public meetings scheduled to discuss DNR Strategic Plan for the next decade There's still time to register for the next heritage tourism seminar! Congratulations Pratt! Lustron anyone? Awards programs seeking nominations Waterwitch to rise again Preservation Events Calendar Subscription Information
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2006 General Assembly Update #1
The Governor's SFY 2007 budget proposal has been released. Most of the budget for HPD remains the same, however, recommendations include a $34,000 decrease in RDC funding to reduce the number of planners from 14 to 12, in line with DCA's service delivery regions. Georgia Heritage grant funding remains the same as last year at $129,276. Funding for the Civil War Commission remains the same at $50,000. The SFY 2007 budget does not include funding for the Courthouse Initiative. For additional information about legislative and budget issues, contact Glen Bennett, GaPA's staff contact, at the Georgia Trust, 404-885-7804, gbennett@georgiatrust.org.
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Public meetings scheduled to discuss DNR Strategic Plan for the next decade
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will hold three public hearings to receive input about its proposed strategic plan. The plan will provide goals, objectives and strategies to guide the development and implementation of department programs and operations during the next decade. The public is asked to provide input on the goals, objectives and strategies in five key operational areas: resource inventory and monitoring; natural and cultural resources management; recreation management; regulatory and non-regulatory programming; and public education, outreach and communications. This information may be reviewed online at www.gadnr.org/strategic.
Members of the public will can provide input into the formulation of the strategic plan at the following DNR sponsored public hearings: February 15, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.- Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Avenue, Pooler, GA 31322;

February 22, 2006 at 2:00 p.m., DNR Boardroom, 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. S.E. Suite 1252, East, Atlanta, GA 30334; February 23, 2006 at 7:00 p.m., Century Fire/EMS Station, 934 U.S. Highway 19 South, Albany, GA 31763.
Any participant at the meetings may make comments either orally or in writing. Those unable to attend the meetings may submit written comments prior to close of business on February 25, 2006. Comments may be submitted electronically at www.gadnr.org/strategic or mailed to Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Strategic Plan, 7 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. S.E., Atlanta, GA 30334. These meetings are accessible to people with physical disabilities. Requests for sign language or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Bob Donaghue at the above mailing address by February 7, 2006. For more information about the scheduled public meetings, contact DNR at (404) 651-5120.
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There's still time to register for the next heritage tourism seminar!
The Heritage Tourism Seminar Series entitled "Heritage Tourism: Putting History to Work in Georgia" is being sponsored by the Historic Preservation Division, the Georgia Trust and the Georgia Department of Economic Development. The workshops will discuss the traits of the heritage traveler, the need for authenticity, how to develop your heritage tourism product, funding sources for product development, and collaborative approaches to heritage tourism. The next workshop will be in St Marys February 9-10, followed by another in Dahlonega, March 16-17. Go to http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=278 for registration information.
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Congratulations Pratt!
Pratt Cassity, Director of the Center for Community Design & Preservation (CCDPP) at the College of Environment and Design is the recipient of the Walter Barnard Hill Award 2006. This award recognizes distinguished achievement in the public service and outreach programs of the University of Georgia. http://www.uga.edu/columns/current/news-honors.html
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Lustron anyone?

Quantico Marine base in Virginia is giving away 58 Lustron homes, the world's largest collection, as part of a Section 106 Programmatic Agreement with the Virginia SHPO. Assembled from porcelain-enameled steel panels between 1948 and 1950, less than 2,500 of these "prefab" homes were produced. RFPs will be accepted until April 12, 2006. Pictures, applications and more information are available at http://www.lustronsatquantico.com/home.html
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Waterwitch to rise again
The National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus is raising funds to build the USS Waterwitch, a reproduction of the CSS Waterwitch, a sidewheel steamer blockade-runner built in 1852. The Waterwitch was made famous by a daring Confederate Navy commando raid near Savannah in 1864. For more information, visit http://www.portcolumbus.org/waterwitch.htm
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Awards programs seeking nominations
The American Association of State and Local History announces its "Leadership in History Awards", which recognize excellence for projects (including educational programs, exhibits, publications, restoration projects, etc), individual achievement, and organizational general excellence. These are national recognitions that note superior and innovative achievements in the fields of state and local history. Recent Georgia recipients include: the Augusta Canal Interpretive Center, Historic Augusta, the Center for Public History at State University of West Georgia, and New Echota State Historic Site. Guidelines and application details can be found at http://www.aaslh.org/cgi-bin/awards.cgi. If you have questions about the application process or AASLH, please contact Laura T. McCarty at 404-523-6220, ext. 11 or ltmc@georgiahumanities.org
This year's National Preservation Honor Award nomination form is available only in electronic form on the National Trust's Website. Guidelines and the nomination form can be found at http://www.nationaltrust.org/preservation_awards/.
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Preservation events
Check the Events Calendar at www.gashpo.org for complete listings by date.

Tell us what your organization or community has planned by sending your listings for our online Events Calendar via e-mail to: helen_talleymcrae@dnr.state.ga.us.
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
New additions
February 2 - John Whatley will discuss Woodland and Mississippian projectile points found in Georgia - Ocmulgee Archaeological Society - Macon - (478) 9267392 or stephen.hammack@robins.af.mil
February 11 - "Georgia History and the Underground Railroad," lecture by Barbara Tagger of the National Park Service - Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, Atlanta - 404-730-1896 to RSVP
February 14 - Dennis Blanton, curator of Native American Archaeology at Fernbank Museum of Natural History will speak about Fernbank's St. Catherine's Island artifacts and history (http://www.fernbank.edu/museum/stcatherines/stcahterinesintro.aspx) at the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society (GAAS) meeting - Atlanta vegotsky@earthlink.net
February 14 - "Black History in the Vanishing Georgia Collection" presentation by Steve Engerrand, archivist - Georgia Archives, Morrow - 678-364-3730 or www.GeorgiaArchives.org
February 26 - "The Atlanta Race Riots-a Dramatic and Historical Presentation" Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, East Point - www.rootsweb.com/~gaaahgs
March 4-12 - The Atlanta Preservation Center (APC) will present The Fourth Annual Phoenix Flies: A Citywide Celebration of Living Landmarks: 19 Preservation partners offer 56 activities at 30 historic venues www.preserveatlanta.com and by calling for 404-688-3353, x11.
Previously listed events February 9-10 Putting History to Work in Georgia: heritage tourism seminar - St Marys http://www.georgiatrust.org/whatsnew/heritage_tourism_workshops.htm
February 14 - GaPA (Georgians for Preservation Action) Legislative Reception Atlanta - www.georgiatrust.org or contact Mandy Elliott at 404-885-7817 or melliott@georgiatrust.org.

February 16-17 - Southern Garden Heritage Conference - State Botanical Garden - Athens - garden@uga.edu or phone 706-542-1244
March 12-15 - 2006 NCSHPO Annual Meeting - Bethesda, MD www.ncshpo.org/meetinginfo/2006AM/MeetingInformation.htm
March 13-14 - 32nd Annual National Preservation Lobby Day - Washington, DC 404-885-7804 or gbennett@georgiatrust.org.
March 16-17 Putting History to Work in Georgia: heritage tourism seminar Dahlonega http://www.georgiatrust.org/whatsnew/heritage_tourism_workshops.htm
April 19-22 - National Council on Public History Annual Meeting - Washington DC - http://www.ncph.org/2006annualmtg.html
April 20-23 - Georgia Preservation Conference and Georgia Trust Annual Meeting - Athens - http://www.georgiatrust.org/historic_sites/annual_meeting.htm
June 4-7 - National Main Streets Conference - New Orleans http://conference.mainstreet.org/content.aspx?page=7691&site=8
October 31 - November 5 - National Trust's National Preservation Conference Pittsburg, PA https://www.nthpconference.org/
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