Preservation Week is May 3-11!
The theme for Preservation Week 2013 is Threatened Sites & Communities. Preservation Piedmont is pleased to partner with the Jefferson School City Center & African American Heritage Center to bring you this exciting and informative week of events!
Download the Preservation Week schedule (pdf file)
Friday, May 3, 6 pm Preservation Week Opening Night
Historic Preservation: Diverse Places, Users & Resources with Everett Fly
6 pm reception, 7 pm talk
at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Auditorium
Everett L. Fly, a licensed landscape architect and licensed architect who resides in San Antonio, Texas has worked in private practice for thirty years, including historic preservation in fifteen states and the District of Columbia. He is currently working to interpret and place Hobson City, Alabama, on the National Register of Historic Places as the state’s oldest incorporated African American town. In 1977, Mr. Fly became the first African American to earn the Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship that allowed him to research and travel across America identifying more than 800 African American districts, neighborhoods, settlements, villages and towns in the continental forty eight states. Currently his working list of “Black Settlements” stands at more than 1,200. Listen to an April 26 podcast featuring an interview with Mr. Fly about Preservation Week on blogtalkradio's program, The Reasonable Voices.
Eligible for AIA, ASLA & AICP credits
Sponsored by the City of Charlottesville & VDOT
Saturday, May 4, 10 am - 12 pm 10th & Page Explorer Walk & Story Talk
meet at Venable Elementary School auditorium
Come and explore the 10th and Page Neighborhood as part of the Block x Block project sponsored by Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP). We will be taking a walk through the neighborhood to observe and record what we can see, hear, smell, touch and taste in the environment with our five senses. After the walk, we will have snacks and a short story talk about the history of the neighborhood. Although this event is primarily geared towards families with children 7-12 years old, explorers of all ages are welcome. This event will be canceled if there is heavy rain - please check the website for updates.
Tuesday, May 7, 6:30 pm Cemetery Conservation & Commemoration panel discussion
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center auditorium
Local historians & preservation activists will discuss the value of family cemeteries to the broader community and the work being done to protect & commemorate them. The panel includes Dede Smith and Ben Ford and will be moderated by Lynn Rainville. Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, May 8, 12- 1:30 pm Genealogy 101
Jefferson School City Center Isabella Gibbons Genealogy Center
An informative workshop on tracing your family's genealogy, led by Shelley Murphy & the Central Virginia Geneological Association
Wednesday, May 8 6:30 pm The Jefferson School Story
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center auditorium
Highlighting the Jefferson School adaptive reuse story & the work of the African American Heritage Center. Light refreshments will be served.
Thursday, May 9 12-1 pm Documenting Charlottesville's Threatened Resources
Jefferson School City Center Classroom 207
Learn how and why Preservation Piedmont's documentation committee documents local structures that are pending demolition. Bring your own lunch!
Friday, May 10 6 pm Lost Communities of Virginia book talk with Kirsten Sparenborg
Blue Whale Books
Lost Communities of Virginia documents thirty small communities from throughout the Commonwealth that have lost their original industry, transportation mode, or way of life. Using contemporary photographs, historical information, maps, and excerpts of interviews with longtime residents of these communities, the book documents the present conditions, recalls past boom times, and explains the role of each community in regional settlement. Authors Terri Fisher and Kirsten Sparenborg will discuss the book’s thirty once-thriving communities as remembered in photographs, narratives, and interviews with long-time residents.
Saturday, May 11 1-5 pm Bleak House & Hydraulic Mills Area Bus Tour
Meet at Ivy Creek Natural Area
This tour will take guests to several locations to see properties and hear brief talks relating to the Hydraulic Mills area, an African American community in the post Civil War era and well into the 20th Century. The tour meets promptly at 1 p.m. at Ivy Creek Natural Area. Visitors will board a bus to visit the sites, and return to Ivy Creek for the final presentation and closing reception in the barn to conclude Preservation Week. The bus tour is a ticketed event, but the reception is free & open to the public. Ticket prices for the tour are $12 for members and $17 for non-members. Purchase your ticket today to reserve your space (Click the Donate button at the bottom of the page & enter "PWtour" in the Purpose field). Rain or shine - portions of the tour will be outside, so please wear comfortable shoes & bring an umbrella if there is a chance of rain.