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Preserving our Present
I think I was in a mood when I wrote this. All these icons were passing away and it made me think about how we would be remembered. Would it be things connected to popular cultlure like our obsession...
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Closing it Out (and a bit about Nashville Food)
I know it has been a few weeks since the end of the National Preservation Conference, but I wanted to make sure to provide a closing post. On Friday after dispatching the last of the field sessions...
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Civil War cannon and luminaries at Antietam Battlefield by Keith Snyder This post can also be found on the PreservationNation.org Blog. I know that Thanksgiving is normally when the holiday lights go...
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Currents of Change: Thinking about the Environment and History in Portland,...
For the next few days I’ll be attending the National Council on Public History (NCPH) conference in Portland, Oregon. Not only is this city the furthest west I have ever been, it is also the first time...
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THATCamp: Digital Storytelling, Local History, Social Media
What is an un-conference? It is a participant-driven gathering based on a particular theme or purpose. On the weekend of May 22nd I attended THATCamp, an un-conference at the Center for History and New...
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We Are One: The National Asian Pacific Islander American Historic...
Also posted on the PreservationNation.org Blog. I’m working on a post of some exhibits I recently attended but wanted to post this here as well. We are one. At the end of the first day of the Asian...
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Preservation in Pop Culture: How I Met Your Mother
As I mention in the description of …and this is what comes next (and perhaps as can be evidenced by my inordinate love of the television show LOST) I am both a historian and a pop culture fanatic. This...
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Bring it on Buffalo
It is October! Which means I have been spending a full week here in Buffalo, NY for the National Preservation Conference. Last night I made a decision that instead of trying to write a bunch of posts...
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Preservation and a Pressure Cooker (A Reflection on the Materiality of...
The materiality of preservation is very much rooted in these places and objects ability to tell a story – to evoke the intangible in such a way that makes it more certain, more reliable, more real. For...
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Downton Abbey and the Pull of Place in Popular Television
I’ve been angling for a reason to write about Downton Abbey on this blog, and an opportunity presented itself in this fun Friday post that went up today on the PreservationNation.org blog. You can read...
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Bring it on Buffalo
It is October! Which means I have been spending a full week here in Buffalo, NY for the National Preservation Conference. Last night I made a decision that instead of trying to write a bunch of posts...
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Raise/Raze at the Dupont Underground
A few weeks ago I wrote two separate pieces on a unique art installation at the Dupont Underground in Washington, DC. The exhibit took the plastic balls from National Building Museum’s “Beach”...
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“Even if You Do Everything Right….Without Time It Won’t Ring True”
….and we have lift off. Yesterday was the first day of the National Preservation Conference here in Austin, Texas. Last minute preparations, the dispatching of the first round of field sessions were...
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Welcome Back Howard Theatre
The Marquee of the Howard TheatreCredit: Priya Chhaya Just a quick post to share some pictures I took at the Howard Theatre (link to info on the restoration) re-opening this week. If you want to read a...
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What We Really Do: Changing Perceptions
Preservationists say “no.” House Museums are “behind the velvet ropes.” Historians live within an “ivory tower.” Does this sound familiar? Historians serve as stewards of the past, disseminating...
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Fifteen.
Five years ago I wrote about a fairly naïve, 23 year old who started her first post-grad school job thankful to be working professionally as a historian. I was grateful for colleagues, mentors, and an...
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