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From: "Ernest Everett Blevins" <>
Subject: [SUVCW] Fwd: [Fwd: HPD/DNR press release: Historic cemeteriesconference to be held in Augusta]
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:34:43 -0400
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Another announcement similar to one I've sent before, but I think this one
has some more contacts.

Ernie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jennifer Martin Lewis <>
Date: Oct 3, 2007 5:43 PM
Subject: [Fwd: HPD/DNR press release: Historic cemeteries conference to be
held in Augusta]
To:

Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Noel Holcomb, Commissioner
Historic Preservation Division
W. Ray Luce, Division Director and Deputy State Historic Preservation
Officer
34 Peachtree St., Suite 1600, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Telephone (404) 656-2840 Fax (404) 651-8739
www.gashpo.org


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carole Moore at 404-463-8434 or

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Historic cemeteries conference to be held in Augusta

ATLANTA (October 3, 2007) - Eternal Places: Discovering Georgia*s
Historic Cemeteries conference will be held at the Ramada Hotel and
Conference Center in Augusta, Georgia, November 1-2, 2007. Registration
information is available online at
http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=395

The conference is supported by a Preserve America grant awarded by the
National Park Service to the Historic Preservation Division (HPD) of the
Georgia Department of Natural Resources. HPD*s statewide effort
*Campaign to Preserve Georgia*s Historic Cemeteries* is using the
$86,000 grant in a three-pronged approach. Of the initial grant,
$60,000 was used as sub-grant money and awarded as matching grants to
five Georgia communities in need of assistance in preserving and
interpreting their historic cemeteries. Remaining funds are to be used
to co-sponsor the statewide Eternal Places cemetery conference with the
Georgia Department of Economic Development, Historic Augusta, Inc., and
the Central Savannah River Area Regional Development Center and to
produce a publication entitled, Preserving Georgia*s Historic
Cemeteries.
According to Carole Moore, HPD*s grants coordinator, *the Eternal
Places conference is offered to help Georgians discover how to use
historic cemeteries to tell community stories both to visitors and local
citizens. This conference will illustrate how cemeteries are not only
revered and sacred public places, but interesting cultural landscapes
and the setting for educational opportunities.*

Speakers include Debi Hacker, Conservation Administrator and Education
Coordinator of the Chicora Foundation, Inc.; historian and genealogist
Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr.; and James R. Cothran, FASLA, of Robert and Co.
Other speakers will highlight topics such as heritage tourism,
cemeteries as cultural landscapes, development of preservation plans,
cemetery maintenance, and legal issues.

Conference participants will have the opportunity to attend the opening
day reception and tour of St. Paul*s Episcopal Church and cemetery on
November 1, and the historic Magnolia and Cedar Grove cemeteries on
November 2. Visitors will learn about the history and records of the
cemeteries, view a variety of interesting tombstones and ironwork, and
hear about some of the people who are buried there.

Tourism officials, cemetery staff, preservationists, educators,
genealogists, city officials, historical societies, Main Street and
Hometown managers, or cemetery volunteers and enthusiasts that want to
register for the conference or request more information about Eternal
Places: Discovering Georgia*s Historic Cemeteries, may contact, Carole
Moore, at 404-463-8434; or Carrie
Hutcherson, at 404-651-5287; .

HPD serves as Georgia*s state historic preservation office. Its
mission is to promote the preservation and use of historic places for a
better Georgia. HPD*s programs include archaeology, protection and
education, environmental review, grants, historic resource surveys, tax
incentives, the National Register of Historic Places, community planning
and technical assistance. For more information on these programs, call
HPD at 404-656-2840 or visit its website at www.gashpo.org.

Preserve America is a White House initiative that encourages and
supports community efforts to preserve and enjoy the nation*s cultural
and natural heritage. More information on Preserve America, including a
complete list of grant recipients, criteria and application forms for
various initiative programs, can be found at www.PreserveAmerica.gov.

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--
_________________________________
Jennifer Martin Lewis


Certified Local Government Coordinator
UGA Center for Community Design & Preservation
325 S. Lumpkin Street
Athens, GA 30602-1861
p: 706-583-8047 | f: 706-583-0320
http://www.sed.uga.edu/pso/


--
Ernest Everett Blevins, MFA • Blevins Historical Research
110 Evergreen Way • Villa Rica, Georgia 30180
• 770-456-1876

Historic Preservation Consultant -- Historical and Architectural Research --
Genealogical (Family) Research -- Preservation Planning and Documentation --
House History

Member: American Planning Association, New England Historic Genealogical
Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Sons
of Union Veterans, and member of numerous other lineage and heritage
societies. .


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