Utah Heritage Foundation

Lynn Taylor is a personal friend of UHF.  She's a passioniate preservationist and we've seen her great work firsthand in Nashville.  She's seeking preservation professional to help give these webinars to a national audience.  Here's what she recently wrote to us:

 

We are looking for WEBINAR PRESENTERS on historic preservation and restoration. Do you have a great PowerPoint presentation? Do you know of someone you does? Do you already have a webinar scheduled and would like to list it on the Taylor Made Plans events page?

A fabulous new brochure has been produced by the Bear River Heritage Area Alliance to take you on a tour of traditional farms, ranches, and historic structures in a seven county area of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho centered on the Cache Valley.  There's also a list of county fairs, roadside vendors, and other local celebrations in the brochure.  Interestingly, they've also included a list of abandoned buildings.  Really I see the buildings on this list as potential opportunities for redevelopment utilizing some fabulous buildings that have a history in the region's agricultural history.

View the tour brochure   here (1.29 Mb) .

The Recent Past Preservation Network (RPPN) is proud to announce its new scholarship for the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Conference. This year, in Buffalo, New York.  The Conference Scholarship is open to all active college students who are RPPN members.  Student membership is only $5 and you can join here to be eligible.  The scholarship is designed to give students with an active interest in recent past preservation, and an opportunity to broaden their education by attending the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Conference where they will be able to connect with their peers and learn from their predecessors through a variety of educational sessions.

In addition to receiving paid conference registration, the recipient will serve as a liaison for RPPN and will have the opportunity to write a featured article about the Conference for the RPPN Bulletin, our high-quality quarterly magazine, which is read by preservationists throughout the country.

Visit our website for eligibility criteria and to apply.

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Taming the West....Changing Landscapes and Resource Extraction

ANNUAL CONFERENCE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS

All I can say is, Wow!  If you love modern architecture and design, Palm Springs Modernism Week is for you.  Modernism “week” is actually 10 days of tours, lectures, screenings, parties and exhibits.  On a limited schedule this year, my first time there, I only managed to attend two lectures and a movie screening – to my great regret.

War and Peace, the California Design Dividend was a fascinating lecture by Bill Stern, executive director, Museum of California Design, about how the material shortages of WWII sparked the spare, but brilliant innovations by small California startup design companies that we now call Mid-Century Modern style.

The screening of Peter Moruzzi’s Desert Holiday (book title Palm Springs Holiday), a humorous vintage postcard tour of early Palm Springs architecture and resorts was a big hit, presented in a packed ballroom at the Riviera Palm Springs decked out as a movie theater, complete with complementary popcorn. 

The world is becoming more diverse each passing day, changing the professional atmosphere and shifting the focus of many organizations.

This movement is what led to the creation of the National Trust's Diversity Scholarship Program (DSP).

Since 1992, the DSP has focused on providing financial and educational assistance to approximately 60 individuals each year from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds across the nation.

In honor of the 100th birth year of architect, preservationist, and educator James Marston Fitch (1909 -2000) the Board of Trustees of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation is planning a one-day symposium on the topic of esthetics in architectural preservation.

In honoring Professor Fitch's legacy during the centennial year of his birth, the Fitch Foundation will engage today's leading heritage protection practitioners in one of Jim Fitch's favorite topics of discussion and reflection. The program will explore manifestations of and reasons for the appearance of America's built environment today that has been so influenced by the preservation movement in recent decades.

The Preservationist's Eye: Esthetics in Reuse and Conservation of the Historic Built Environment will be held Saturday, 26 September, 2009, at the recently restored Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (15 East 84th Street in New York City). The Institute is headquartered in a beautifully and recently restored mansion that would itself have been a source of dialogue for James Marston Fitch.

The Fitch Charitable Foundation and Columbia University's Preservation Alumni will open the symposium with a reception symposium at 6 PM the prior evening at on the roof terrace of the Arsenal in Central Park, now used as offices of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

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