Preservation Georgia online, Jan. 8-14, 2007

Preservation Georgia Online January 8-14, 2007 In this issue: Increased tag sales goal for new year GAAHPN annual meeting brochure is now available online Locust Grove Cemetery listed in the National Register HPD staff news ICOMOS Internships Fellowships in museum practice Positions available in Georgia Preservation Events Calendar Subscription Information
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Increased tag sales goal for new year
As we begin 2007, it is important to realize that we have just 12 short months to reach our goal of 1,000 license plate orders. As of today, at the current rate of approximately 13 orders per week, we will accomplish this by December 1, just under the wire. However, if orders increase by only seven per week to a total of 20 per week, we should reach our target by the end of July. As you set your professional goals for the New Year, please include promotion of the preservation license tag to members of your organizations. Funding from tag sales could make a major difference to a building in need within your community. Please spread the word now! The current number of tag orders is 409.
For more information on how to order the historic preservation license plate or help spread the word, please contact grants coordinator Carole Moore at 404463-8434 or email her at carole_moore@dnr.state.ga.us. To view the plate, access the order form, and locate the nearest tag office, please visit HPD's website at www.gashpo.org.
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GAAHPN annual meeting brochure is now available online
The complete brochure for the Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network annual meeting is now available on HPD's Web site at http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=328 All conference speakers are listed, along with lodging/travel logistics and a registration form. The registration fee is $50, and includes all workshops, two lunches and the field session. Mail your registration checks to Jeanne Cyriaque, African American programs coordinator. For more information, contact Jeanne Cyriaque at jeanne_cyriaque@dnr.state.ga.us or 404/656-4768.

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Locust Grove Cemetery listed in the National Register on December 12, 2006
Located near Sharon in Taliferro County, Locust Grove Cemetery is a historically significant cemetery containing a unique collection of tombstones associated with the first Catholic settlement in Georgia. Locust Grove Cemetery is significant in art because it contains several very fine tombstones from the 1820s and 1830s that exemplify some of the highest form of materials and workmanship for that early era. The community dated from the 1790s when a group of Catholics came to Georgia from Maryland, to the then-frontier of the state, to establish a settlement in what was then Wilkes County. After receiving a Georgia Heritage grant from HPD, a professional preservation plan was published in 2000 and restoration of some tombstones took place in 2003.
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HPD staff news
HPD's tax incentives specialist, Ced Dolder, was asked to submit her article on Savannah landscape architect, Clermont Lee, for the National Park Service's second volume of Pioneers of American Landscape Design. The article also appeared as an electronic obituary for The Cultural Landscape Foundation's November 2006 newsletter. The original essay was written for HPD's Women's History Initiative, authored by private consultants, about Georgia women's influence on the built environment, on file. The link to the article is found at www.tclf.org/pioneers/profiles/lee_clermont
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RDC planner news
The Georgia Mountains Regional Development Center has just hired Chip Wright as their preservation planner. He has a Masters degree in historic preservation from UGA, and a BA in anthropology from West Georgia College. Chip has worked in preservation and cultural resource management (i.e. archaeology too) for many years, with firms in Atlanta, Buford, Natchez, and Tallahassee. His contact email is gwright@gmrdc.org and his phone number is 770-538-2626, ext.2618.
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ICOMOS Internships

Applications for the 2007 US/ICOMOS international intern exchange program are now being accepted. Deadline: January 30, 2007. The competitive program offers up to 15 opportunities overseas for U.S. preservationists in the early stages of their careers and a like number of internships in the United States for non-U.S. citizens. Host organizations in both the U.S. and overseas are also being sought. More information on hosting or being an intern is online at http://www.icomos.org/usicomos/International_Exchange_Program/2007_Progra m_Overview.htm
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Fellowships in museum practice
Applications for professional development fellowships offered by the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies are now available. Deadline for applications: February 15, 2007. More information and applications are online at http://museumstudies.si.edu/fellowships.html.
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Preservation events calendar
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 11 - 2007 Black History Month Essay and Public Speaking Contest: "African-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: A Mixed History" - submission deadline is January 19 - Georgia Historical Society - Savannah www.georgiahistory.com or 912.651.2125, ext. 17
June 23-30 - Preservation Leadership Training - National Trust for Historic Preservation - application deadlin is March 30 - Owatonna, Minnesota http://www.nationaltrust.org/plt
Previously listed national and state conferences and meetings

January 16-17 - Community Planning Institute - Dept. of Community Affairs Savannah http://www.dca.state.ga.us/development/PlanningQualityGrowth/programs/opqg. asp
January 21-26 - Transportation Research Board (TRB) 86th Annual Meeting Washington, DC - www.itre.ncsu.edu/ADC50/index.htm
January 26 - Georgia National Register Review Board Meeting - Historic Preservation Division, DNR - Atlanta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41
February 3 4th annual Black History Conference - Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation Seattle conferences@aaahrp.org
February 8-10 GAAHPN annual meeting: What's New in the Old Neighborhood? - Augusta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=328
February 13 - Historic Preservation Day at the Capitol & Legislative Reception Georgians for Preservation Action - Atlanta www.georgiatrust.org/get_involved/advocate.htm
February 15 2007 Under One Roof Housing Conference Fort Valley State University Cooperative Extension Program Fort Valley 478-825-6573 or torbertk@fvsu.edu
February 15-16 - Southern Garden Heritage Conference - State Botanical Garden of Georgia - Athens - 706-542-1244 or garden@uga.edu
February 26-28 Alliance of National Heritage Areas Annual Meeting and Congressional Reception Washington DC www.NationalHeritageAreas.com March 8-10, 2007 - Spring 2007 Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference Boston - www.traditionalbuildingshow.com
March 25-28 National Main Streets Conference Seattle http://conference.mainstreet.org
March 28-31 - Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference "Savannah and the Lowcountry" - Savannah - http://www.scad.edu/academic/majors/arlh/vaf/ or contact Daves Rossell, erossell@scad.edu

April 11-14 Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation annual meeting Athens www.ahlp.org/docs/meetings.html
April 27-28 - Spring HPC Training - Georgia Alliance of Preservation Commissions - St Marys - www.uga.edu/gapc - 706-583-8047 or jmlewis@uga.edu
May 18 - Georgia National Register Review Board Meeting - Historic Preservation Division, DNR - Atlanta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41
May 18-20 - Georgia Trust Annual Meeting - Brunswick & the Golden Isles www.georgiatrust.org/historic_sites/annual_meeting.htm
May 20-27 - VI World Archaeological Congress - Kingston, Jamaica http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/
June 18-21 - Your Passport to Crossing Boundaries in Heritage Development: International Heritage Development Conference - Alliance of National Heritage Areas - Detroit, MI - http://www.nationalheritageareas.org/2007_conference.htm
September 28 - Georgia National Register Review Board Meeting - Historic Preservation Division, DNR - Atlanta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41
October 25-28 - 12th National Conference on Planning History - Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) - Portland, Maine http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/sacrph/
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