Preservation Georgia online, Sept. 18-24, 2010

In this issue:
-Watch Georgia Outdoors new archaeology episode -Carrollton to host Georgia HPC training in November -Georgia Archives annonces new hours -Positions available in Georgia -Available grants
Watch Georgia Outdoors new archaeology episode
Georgia Outdoors explores how the fascinating work of archaeologists sheds light on our state's heritage in the all-new episode "Unearthing the Past." This episode premiered Wednesday, September 22 at 8 PM and will repeat Friday, September 24 at 8:30 PM and Saturday, September 25 at 6 PM. Host Sharon Collins visits dig sites on Sapelo Island, the Ocmulgee Mounds near Macon and a dig near Calhoun led by the Coosawattee Foundation, which offers regular programs on archaeology preservation to the public.
In her first stop on Sapelo Island, Collins meets archaelogist Nicholas Honerkamp. Honerkamp is searching for proof of slave cabins that appear on an old map of Sapelo Island. His findings can indicate more about slave life than the history books portray. For example, Hornerkamp can tell a lot about the relationship between slaves and their owners simply by the way their living quarters were laid out.

September 18-24, 2010
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Preservation events calendar
Check the Events Calendar at www.gashpo.org for complete listings by date.
This week's new listings
Reminder - September 25 - Free admission day at Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites
September 25 - Good Urbanism 101: Lessons on Designing Cities - SCAD, Georgia Conservancy and Georgia Tech urban design faculty - Savannah - contact kmoore@gaconservancy.org for more detailed course information and registration
CANCELLED - September 30-October 2 National Barn Alliance Southern Conference Rock Barn, Canton
October 9-10 - 40th annual Prater's Mill Country Fair - Varnell - 706-694-6455
February 1-12 - Georgia History Festival presented by The Georgia Historical Society Savannah
National and state conferences and meetings (listed in previous newsletters)
September 28 - Downtown Development Authority Training - Augusta - www.gmanet.com /Training.aspx?CNID=36160
September 28-29 - Preservation Planning for Campuses, Complexes and Installations -

Collins visits the Ocmulgee Mounds near Macon, which were once thought to be the former home to a highly advanced culture called Moundbuilders. She talks with Dr. Dave Crass, director of the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, about how the work of archaelogists helped to prove that the mounds were built by Native Americans who had highly developed cultures and political systems.
Next, Dr. James Langford of the Coosawattee Foundation shows Collins the Thompson site near Calhoun. Once thought to be farmland, the site was actually a large village that was the capital of the Cherokee nation. Volunteers who work with Langford get a special lesson on archeology as they find treasures such as old pottery.
Even with all of this knowledge, archaelogists still have much work to do to better understand how the earliest humans settled in Georgia, and that is also impacted by geological discoveries, including evidence that Georgia was once connected to West Africa, as Collins discusses with Dr. Chris Bean of Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
Carrollton to host Georgia HPC training in November

National Preservation Institute seminar Hampton, VA - www.npi.org/sem-presplan.html
September 29-October 1 - Georgia Downtown Conference - Augusta - Main Street at Work: Building Jobs and Preserving Downtowns - www. georgiadowntownassociation.org /conference.asp
September 30 - Historic Chattahoochee Commission Annual Meeting - Dr. Wayne Flynt will give the keynote address on "Tradition and Change in the Chattahoochee Valley" Columbus - www.hcc-al-ga.org
October 2010 - Georgia Archives Month: Travel Back in Time - http://soga.org/Resources/ Documents /GAM2010FlyerREV.pdf
October 6-9 - Association for Preservation Technology International annual conference Denver, CO - www.apti.org/conferences /conference-current.cfm
October 6-9 - Society for Commercial Archeology conference - "Odyssey in the Ozarks" - Fayetteville, AR - www.sca-roadside. org
October 8 - 2010 Georgia Centennial Farms Awards - Georgia National Fair - Perry - www. gashpo.org/content /displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=441
October 13 - 2011 Places in Peril Announcement & Reception at Rhodes Hall The Georgia Trust - Atlanta - www.georgiatrust. org /news/2010places.php
October 13-16 - Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting - Chattanooga, TN - www.sesah.org/ sesah /SESAH_Home.html
October 14-15 - Southeastern Environmental Law Seminar - Myrtle Beach, SC - www. EnvironmentalLawSeminar.com
October 15-17 - Window Restoration College The Belvedere School for Hands-On

Please join fellow Historic Preservation Commission members from across Georgia on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6 in historic downtown Carrollton. This educational, informative, and fun training will be offered through the combined partnership of the Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Alliance for Preservation Commissions, the UGA Center for Community Design and Preservation, and the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government. The meeting agenda, training details, hotel accommodations and registration are available online.
For more information please contact Chrissy Marlowe at the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government by email at marlowe@cviog.uga.edu by phone at 706.542.9528, or Leigh Burns at the Historic Preservation Division by email at leigh.burns@dnr.state.ga.us or by phone at 404.651.5181.
For more information about Carrollton please see the Carrollton Main Street website and the Carrollton Area Convention & Visitor's Bureau website.
Georgia Archives announces new hours

Preservation - Hannibal, Missouri
October 15-17 - Society for Georgia Archaeology's Fall Meeting: Historic Preservation of Prehistoric, Colonial and Plantation Structures on the Coast - St Simons Island - http://thesga.org/category/ meetings/2010-fall/
October 20-23 - Growing Green: Traditional Building and Sustainable Development Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference Chicago - to register call Carolyn Walsh 781-7791560, or email cwalsh@restoremedia.com; www. traditionalbuildingshow.com
October 21-23 - International Preservation Trades Workshop - Frankfort, KY - www.iptw.org
October 26-27 - NCSHPO Annual Membership Meeting - Austin - contact Kristen at harbeson@sso.org or 202-624-5465; chttp:// harbeson@sso.org
October 26-30 - National Preservation Conference - Austin, TX - www. preservationnation.org /resources/training/npc/ or email conference@nthp.org
October 27-31 Oral History Association annual meeting: Times of Crisis, Times of Change, Human Stories on the Edge of Transformation Atlanta - www.oralhistory.org/annual-meeting
October 28-30 - MESDA Conference on American Material Culture - Madison, GA - www. MESDA.org/conference
October 30-November 20 - Seminar for Historical Administration -American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Indianapolis, IN - www.aaslh.org/histadmin.htm
November 5 - Landscape for Living: Post War Landscape Architecture in Georgia - The Cultural Landscape Foundation Symposium Spotlights Atlanta's Rich Post War Landscape Heritage symposium - HPD's Ced Dolder will be speaking about Savannah landscape architect, Clermont Lee - sponsored by the Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), with local partner, Cherokee Garden Library of the Atlanta History Center - Atlanta - http://tclf.org/sites/

The Georgia Archives recently made the following announcement on their website:
Effective October 1, 2010 the hours available for public visitation to the Georgia Archives will change to Thursday through Saturday 8:30am to 5:00pm. This is an unfortunate action we must take to meet the difficult budget environment facing all State Agencies.
With the reduction in public hours the Archives staff will now be deployed to fulfill different functions on different days. When the Archives is open to the public, most or all employees will serve the public in the Reference Room. When the Archives is closed to the public, most or all of the employees will work with state agencies to bring records into the Archives, catalog them, and shelve them. To provide better and timelier service for research requests outside the core duties of the State Archives, i.e. genealogy requests, a list of other sources of information can be provided. In this way the Archives will maintain its critical functions with reduced staffing.
Lunch and Learn lectures, normally held on the second Tuesday of each month, have been rescheduled (where possible) for the second Thursday of each month. Please see the website for a revised schedule.
Positions available in Georgia
Archaeologist, Transportation Planner Associate (90509) - Ga. Dept. of

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November 9 - South Carolina Historic Preservation 101 - SC Archives and History Center - Columbia - contact Jennifer Satterthwaite at 803-896-6171, jsatt@scdah. state.sc.us; http://shpo.sc.gov/conf/
November 30-December 2 - Historic Tree Preservation Workshop - NCPTT Fredericksburg, VA
December 7-9 - Section 106: Agreement Documents - NPI seminar - Atlanta - www.npi.org
2011
February 17-19 - 7th Savannah Symposium: The Spirituality of Place - Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah - www2.scad.edu/ architectural-history/symposium/2011/
March 30--April 3 - Society for American Archaeology 76th annual meeting - Sacramento, California
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
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.
Submit your listings to: helen.talley-mcrae@dnr.state.ga.us.

Transportation, Division of Engineering, Office of Environmental Services. Recruitment period: September 15-29.
Historian Associate, Transportation Planner (90516) - Ga. Dept. of Transportation, Division of Engineering, Office of Environmental Services. Recruitment period: September 15-29.
Available grants
Preservation Services Fund Grants Administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, these grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations and public agencies for preservation planning and education efforts. Grant awards range from $500 to $5,000. The application deadline is October 1, 2010. For more information, contact the Southern Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation at 843-722-8552 or soro@nthp.org and the National Trust website.
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.
Georgia DOT will hold seven TE application workshops across the state during the month of October: October 5, 2010 - Calhoun 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. October 7, 2010 - Columbus Government Center - 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. October 13, 2010 - Atlanta - One Georgia Center - 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. October 14, 2010 - Augusta - Augusta Boathouse - 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. October 15, 2010 - Tybee Island - 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

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October 18, 2010 - Tifton - Georgia DOT District Office - 1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. October 22, 2010 - Macon - Georgia DOT Area Office - 10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Please visit GDOT's TE page for more information, workshop registration and application details.
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