2008
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Haunted History in American Cemetery: Natchitoches Stories and Folklore
Recovered original Natchitoches Preservation Network newspaper submission dated 2008-09-25. Historical events, legends and organizational descriptions reflect contemporary reporting; newspaper issue date is not recorded here. What’s so scary about Natchitoches history? You’ll have an opportunity to…
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Apply online for preservation technology grants through Oct.15
The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training is looking to fund innovative projects that advance the application of science and technology in historic preservation. The PTT Grants program funds up to $25,000 for projects that…
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What is social media?
For the last couple of years, the terms “web 2.0” and “social media” have been used for nearly anything new and interactive on the internet. Since Preservation Today and sites like it integrate many basic social…
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Major cultural sites caught in crossfire of Georgian conflict
A 2008 roundup of reports about cultural sites threatened or damaged during the war between Georgia and Russia. Drawing on ICOMOS, ICCROM, archaeologists, news reports, and cultural-property observers, the post records the uncertainty surrounding monuments, museums,…
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Detoxifying American Indian artifacts
Conservator and microbiologist Timberley Roane explores an unusual consequence of historic museum practice: American Indian artifacts contaminated by mercury and arsenic once used as pesticides. Her research investigates whether naturally occurring bacteria can remove toxic metals…
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David Connolly: The Team Hits a Milestone
To demonstrate how his work skills “measure up,” David examines a granite pillar in Jerash. His next examination turns political as he asks “would you trust ‘Winkie’?” Then comes a milestone in the team’s discovery. Actually…
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Preservation Today Video
A surviving 2008 Preservation Today video post whose original YouTube asset is no longer available. The post remains as a marker in the media-loss catalog and should be revisited when the early video archive is reconstructed.
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NCPTT Notes Issue 47
This newsletter features the NCPTT Grants program–newest grants and call for proposals–with a centerfold pull-out poster. Additionally, a research project about the recovery of waterlogged objects, such as those related to shipwrecks, is featured.
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Products from my life as a one-man National Park Service communications maven in the early days of social media
During a decade at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Jeff Guin operated as a one-person communications, design, marketing, and emerging-media shop for a national preservation research program. The work moved from newsletters, catalogs,…
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David Connolly: Archaeological Humor
David points out some quarried stone near the tombs of Jerash and then takes us on a hillside tour of urban sprawl, Jordan style. Afterwards, events take a turn for the funny when the team takes…