NCPTT 2010 grant recipient, The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), will present A New View of Cultural Landscapes – The Massachusetts Heritage Landscape Atlas as part of the technology showcase at the 2011 American Planning Association conference in Boston, April 9-12, 2011. Wendy Pearl, DCR Historic Landscape Preservation Initiative Director, Jessica Rowcroft, DCR [...]
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The Society for the Preservation of Historic Cements will hold a conference in New York City from 31 March to 1 April, 2011. Speakers will discuss repair philosophies for historic cements, the new ASTM mortar specification for historic masonry, and present issues raised in projects at Fort Sumter National Monument and Frank Lloyd Wright’s concrete block houses [...]
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On Saturday March 19 and Sunday, March 20, 2011, HPEF, APTNE, Columbia University, and the AIA Historic Resources Committee will present a Symposium on the Restoration of Cast and Wrought Iron. The one and one-half day event will feature sessions on the properties and appropriate treatment of historic cast and wrought iron, an evening reception [...]
Read more →Lansing Community College has announced that it will be holding its Iron & Steel Preservation Conference again this year, March 5-6. Last year’s conference, funded in part through the PTT Grants Program, was a great hit with participants and led to the production of a series of informational materials and high quality training videos. NCPTT’s [...]
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation recently launched an online exhibit based on their 2010 Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story traveling photography exhibition. The exhibit features 25 images of 12 different locations in the US and Puerto Rico.
Landslide, first issued in 2003, is the Foundation’s annual compendium of significant at-risk parks, gardens, horticultural features, and [...]
A view over Vicksburg National Cemetery shows differences between recently cleaned headstones (in foreground) and those that will soon be cleaned (in background).
The National Park Service is defining new best practices for the care of the national cemeteries it manages. NCPTT serves as a technical adviser for the project. On Nov. 16-17, Vicksburg National Military [...]
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The UMass Center for Heritage and Society and ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation and Presentation (ICIP), is organizing an International Conference entitled Why Does the Past Matter? Changing Visions, Media, and Rationales in the 21st Century to be held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, May 4-7, 2011.
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The Association for Preservation Technology Northeast Chapter is sending out a call for presentations for the February 4, 2011 Annual Symposium to be held in Boston, Massachusetts. The topic that presentations are to address is The Use of Substitute Materials for Historic Preservation Projects. The Symposium would like to explore the decisions that are made [...]
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NCPTT is sponsoring a workshop entitled APT Preservation Engineering Workshop: Non-Destructive Evaluation Methods for Historic Structures to be convened by the Association for Preservation Technology on Nov. 5-6, 2010 at the historic Presidio of San Francisco.
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Heritage Preservation has announce that registration is open for this Fall’s series of Webinars, the latest installment in the Connecting to Collections initiative. They are working with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in developing the series.
These highly interactive webinars are intended to [...]
