2010
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Ten Years of Preservation in Your Community: NCPTT and Cane River Heritage
From the original Hometown Heritage newspaper submission, August 5, 2010. newspaper issue date is not recorded here; historical event details are retained. It’s hard to believe this year marks a decade of Preservation in Your Community…
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Louisiana Creole Heritage Center: Fighting to Preserve Cane River Memory
Restored Hometown Heritage manuscript submitted 2010-07-15. Newspaper newspaper issue date is not recorded here. Events, funding figures and calls to action describe the historical situation in 2010. For the past 12 years, the folks at the…
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Five People Who Shaped Natchitoches Preservation: Local Knowledge and Community Leadership
Original Hometown Heritage newspaper submission of July 1, 2010. The newspaper issue copy not yet matched to manuscript. This historical column records the writer’s contemporaneous assessments of local knowledge bearers and preservation advocates. For all the…
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Who Will Advocate for the Next Generation of Heritage Professionals? A Cautionary Tale for University Preservation Programs
Losing a historic structure is a sad thing. Losing generations of folks to expertly protect cultural heritage is much, much worse. This past week, Louisiana’s Board of Supervisors for higher education rubber-stamped a proposal from Northwestern…
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Goodbye, Heritage Resources
From the Hometown Heritage newspaper column archive. Original submitted manuscript; the final newspaper typesetting and editing have not yet been checked against a printed copy. By now, just about everyone has heard about Northwestern’s bizarre reorganization…
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African House
Hometown Heritage archival restoration. The text below reproduces the surviving newspaper submission; editorial subheadings have been added for readability and are not part of the original manuscript. If you’re headed out to the Melrose Arts and…
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Hands-On Preservation: NCPTT’s 2010 Community Preservation Fair in Natchitoches
Original Hometown Heritage manuscript submitted June 3, 2010. newspaper issue date is not recorded here. Original event announcements and contact details are historical, not current. Sometimes when folks think about preservation, visions of complicated and expensive…
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Digital Preservation of Documents at the Library of Congress
Kit Arrington explains how the Library of Congress digitized, preserved, and shared HABS, HAER, and HALS documentation, connecting archival formats, metadata, access, and sustainable digital preservation.