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October 30-November 5, 2010
- Self-guided tour of Shields-Ethridge Farm: there's an app for that - Georgia needs Preserve America Stewards - Internship opportunities - Available grants
Self-guided tour of Shields-Ethridge Farm: there's an app for that
The Shields-Ethridge Farm just completed a self-guided, interpretativeprogram project funded, in part, by the Appalachian Regional

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Preservation Events
Check our Events Calendar for complete listings by date.
Submit your listings to: helen.talley-mcrae@dnr.state.ga.us.
This week's new listings
November 6 - Early Edgewood-Candler Park History Walking Tour led by Edith Kelman DeKalb History Center - Atlanta - RSVP at 404373-1088 ext 22
November 7 - Descendants Day reception for all descendants of family interred at Historic Oakland Cemetery - Historic Oakland Foundation - Atlanta - RSVP: 404-688-2107
November 8 - Motivations, Interactions, and Impact: Understanding Audience Experience interactive webcasts and virtual workshops for museums
November 8 - Atlanta to Chattanooga High Speed Ground Transportation Project public information meeting - Dalton
November 9 - Atlanta to Chattanooga High Speed Ground Transportation Project public information meeting - Atlanta

Commission. Components of the project include a new website and an iPhone application developed for audio tours. If you have an iPhone, fall is a great time to give it a test drive. For more information, contact Susan Chaisson, President of the Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm, Inc. at 706-367-8015
Georgia needs Preserve America Stewards
December 1, 2010 is the next quarterly deadline for submitting applications to the Preserve America Stewards program, which recognizes organizations and agencies that successfully use volunteers to help care for historic properties. Twenty-one Preserve America Stewards have been officially designated and recognized for their exemplary volunteer efforts to care for historic resources around the country. So far, Georgia is not represented in this program. Learn more online or contact Druscilla Null at 202-6068532.
Internship opportunities
The National Park Service is soliciting for proposals for cultural resources diversity interns for summer 2011. Annually, the program cosponsors 15 to 18 interns who work on a historic preservation or cultural resources management project for ten weeks, beginning June 6, 2011. The NPS prepares the task agreement documents. The cost for selected projects is shared on a 50/50 basis. Applications are due November 30, 2010. The guidelines and

November 13 - Vernacular Georgia Fall Excursion - Cartersville and Bartow County contact Allison Duncan at 404-463-3284
November 13 - Paradise Gardens Volunteer Workday - Summerville - contact Jordan Poole at 706-506-9864 or at jpoole@georgiatrust.org
National and state conferences and meetings (listed in previous newsletters)
November 9 - South Carolina Historic Preservation 101 - SC SHPO - Columbia contact Jennifer Satterthwaite at 803-896-6171
November 10 - 2012-17 State Preservation Plan Public Input Meeting -12:00 to 1:00PM - Brown bag lunch presentation; Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, 305 Research Drive, Athens. Local contact - Burke Walker 706-3695650.
November 13 - Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association meeting - guest speaker Sara Gale, Georgia Department of Transportation archaeologist - Funk Heritage Center - Waleska
November 15-16 - NAGPRA at 20 symposium Washington, DC
November 16 - Equalization Schools in Georgia and DeKalb Lunch and Learn with HPD's Steven Moffson - DeKalb History Center - Decatur
November 18 - 2012-17 State Preservation Plan Public Input Meeting -10:00 to 11:00AM Presentation; Calhoun Depot, 109 South King Street, Calhoun. Local contact - Dan Latham, Northwest Georgia Regional Commission 706295-6485.
November 30-December 2 - Historic Tree Preservation Workshop - NCPTT Fredericksburg, VA
November 30 - 2012-17 State Preservation Plan Public Input Meeting - 12:00 to 1:00PM - Brown bag lunch presentation; Middle Georgia Regional Commission, 175 Emery Hwy, Suite C, Macon. Local contact - Kristi Harpst 478-7516160.
December 7-9 - Section 106: Agreement Documents - NPI seminar - Atlanta
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application are available online. The program coordinator, Turkiya Lowe, can be contacted at 202-354-2266.
The American Association for State and Local History offers its smaller institutional members the opportunity to apply for the Alderson Internship Program. The program recognizes the #demand for students to gain "real world" experience and for members to get qualified interns into their institutions. The internship opportunity (up to $1,000) is available for three AASLH institutional members to hire a summer intern. The host institution must provide information on what they expect their intern to do and match funds at a 1:4 level (that is $1 for every $4 AASLH provides). Requirements: applicants must be an institutional member of AASLH; applicants must have an annual operating budget under $250,000; application must be received by AASLH office by 5 p.m. on December 10. Visit the website for more information or contact Bethany Hawkins or 615-320-3203.
Available grants
The IMLS Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums are a new IMLS funding opportunity within the National Leadership Grants program. These grants encourage libraries, archives, and museums to challenge existing assumptions about how they operate and the services they provide. The deadline for applications is November 15. The next pre-application teleconference is October 13. Additional information about the Sparks grants is available online.
Recreational Trails Program grants - The United States Congress appropriates funding for the Program, and the Federal Highway Administration manages the Program, but it is administered at the state level. In Georgia, administration is handled by staff of the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites. Grants are awarded to city governments, county governments, federal agencies, authorized commissions, as well as state agencies. The purpose of the RTP is to provide and maintain recreational trails and trail-related facilities identified in, or that further
a specific goal of, the Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation

February 1-12 - Georgia History Festival presented by The Georgia Historical Society Savannah
February 17-19 - 7th Savannah Symposium: The Spirituality of Place - Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah
March 30--April 3 - Society for American Archaeology 76th annual meeting - Sacramento, California
March 31 - April 1 - Statewide Historic Preservation Conference - sponsored by the Historic Preservation Division, DNR and The Georgia Trust - Macon - contact Carole Moore at carole.moore@dnr.state.ga.us or 404-463-8434
April 1-3 - 38th Annual Georgia Trust Annual Meeting - Macon
May 12-13 - Consultation and Protection of Native American Sacred Lands seminar National Preservation Institute - Atlanta - 703765-0100
May 19 -22 - Annual Civil War Preservation Trust Conference - Manassas, VA
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.

Plan (SCORP). More information and the application are available online. The application deadline is November 30.
Transportation Enhancement Funding Announced The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has announced a new round of federally-funded Transportation Enhancement (TE) funding. GDOT will be electronically accepting TE applications beginning October 1, 2010 until 3:00 p.m. December 15, 2010. Applications must be sponsored by a government entity and requires a minimum of 20% local matching funds. Please visit GDOT's TE page for more information, workshop registration and application details.
Battlefield Project Grants, American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service. These grants provide seed money for projects that lead directly to the identification, preservation and interpretation of battlefield land and/or historic sites associated with battlefields. Grants range from $5,000 to $80,000. Eligible applicants are non-profit groups, academic institutions, other private sector organizations, and local, regional, state, and tribal governments. More information is available online. Applications sent by mail must be USPS postmarked by January 2, 2011.
The Division of Public Programs at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities funds humanities projects that are intended for broad public audiences at museums, libraries, historic sites and other historical and cultural organizations. New application guidelines are now posted on the NEH website for its America's Historical and Cultural Organizations grant competition. The next two deadlines are January 12 and August 17. Other grant information is also available at the website. Grants support interpretive exhibitions, reading or film discussion series, historic site interpretation, lecture series and symposia, and digital projects. NEH encourages projects that offer multiple formats and make creative use of new technology to deliver humanities content. Program officers in the Division of Public Programs are available to discuss project ideas or to read a draft of a proposal. Call the NEH Division of Public Programs at 202-606-8269 for more information.

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