Sunday, December 20, 2009

Working to Build a Future for the Past, One Historic Site at a Time

Heritage Conservation Network brings groups of advance preservationists to celebrated sites about the apple to advice body a approaching for the past.

Boulder, CO -- A celebrated home in New Orleans adored from annihilation afterwards Hurricane Katrina; Sicilian frescoes baldheaded in an agrarian abbey acclimated as a chicken coop; a colloquial anatomy conserved to highlight its amount to bounded association in Ghana – this is the blazon of plan Heritage Conservation Network is accomplishing with the abetment of advance preservationists who accompany one of their hands-on architecture attention workshops. HCN has been bringing humans to celebrated sites back 2001 in their adventure to advice bottle the world's architectural heritage. Projects this year cover a architecture in the gold-rush boondocks of Virginia City, Montana, a 17th aeon estate abode in Slovenia, and a mining boondocks in Chihuahua, Mexico.

The primary focus of anniversary branch is commutual analytical attention plan at the site. However, participants aswell apprentice and convenance specific architecture attention skills. Each branch is led by a abstruse able who teaches and guides participants as they work. This aggregate of altruism and training has provided a actual cost-effective agency of accomplishing canning plan for HCN's bounded canning partners. At the Francis Mill in Waynesville, North Carolina, for example, volunteers at a 2004 branch generated 812 hours of activity admired at over $12,000. The amount of the activity was acclimated to bout a admission from the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills. HCN is still alive with the Francis Mill Preservation Society, which affairs to acknowledgment the comminute to alive adjustment by 2007. The third branch in their alternation begins June 18, 2006.

Workshop participants cover a ample mix of humans from history enthusiasts to breath travelers as able-bodied as beginning and able preservationists. Workshop costs ambit from $300 to $950 per being per week. The fees cover lodging, some meals, instructions and materials, but not busline to the site. Descriptions of accepted branch offerings are listed on HCN's website, www.heritageconservation.net. Additional workshops in hurricane-affected celebrated neighborhoods are accepting planned; data will be acquaint as anon as they are finalized.

Heritage Conservation Network is a non-profit alignment committed to the attention of architectural ancestry about the world. HCN produces an anniversary alternation of hands-on architecture attention workshops in affiliation with bounded canning ally in adjustment to added the sites’ canning and accommodate an educational acquaintance for participants.

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