Utah Heritage Foundation

The world is becoming more diverse each passing day, changing the professional atmosphere and shifting the focus of many organizations.

This movement is what led to the creation of the National Trust's Diversity Scholarship Program (DSP).

Since 1992, the DSP has focused on providing financial and educational assistance to approximately 60 individuals each year from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds across the nation.

The National Preservation Institute, a nonprofit organization founded in 1980, educates those involved in the management, preservation, and stewardship of our cultural heritage. The 2010 National Preservation Institute seminar schedule is available online at www.npi.org. The 2010 NPI News Release includes the calendar and seminar descriptions www.npi.org/NewsRelease2010.pdf.

 Advance registration rate available through March 17, 2010

 Landscape Preservation: An Introduction

The Hunter House restoration has been taken over by a SWATC team.  High school students enrolled in the Southwest Applied Technology College (SWATC) building construction class are repairing plaster, restoring a fireplace, and stripping and refinishing wood trim as part of the second phase of work on the historic home.  Other contractors began the restoration with repair of the foundation and re-roofing after the house was moved to the Frontier Homestead State Park Museum (formerly Iron Mission State Park) in 2005 to prevent its demolition.  Utah Heritage Foundation was instrumental in the advocacy process that led to arrangements for saving it.

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has announced that Tim Bailey, a fifth grade teacher at Escalante Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the recipient of the 2009 Preserve America National History Teacher of the Year award. The award is co-sponsored by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Preserve America and HISTORY™. Bailey will receive the $10,000 award on December 16, 2009 at the School Without Walls in Washington, D.C. United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be on hand to congratulate Bailey and speak about the importance of American history education.

Tim Bailey began his teaching career in 1989. He has written three American history workbooks focused on primary sources for elementary classrooms in the Easy Simulations series, published in 2008 by Scholastic. He has also served as a teacher mentor for the past eight years. A Fulbright Scholar in 2003, Bailey has earned several awards from the state of Utah, the Salt Lake City school district, and others.

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The National Trust is featuring a weatherization guide for historic homes on Preservation Nation for those of us that are thinking every day about how we can be more energy conscious in order to be better stewards at home and in the community, thinking globally acting locally.

The Trust website includes sections on how to conduct a home audit, why historic windows matter, mechanical systems, insulation, and roofing.  Many of these helpful, visual, and interactive tips and exhibits will help you as the building owner better understand how your historic building is already green and sustainable, and be better able to utilize the historic features during rehabilitation to make it more efficient for the future.

 Go to the Weatherization Guide

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The newly formed Uinta-Wasatch-Cache Forest Association seeks individuals that are interested in Forest Service issues, and would be committed and hardworking Board members for this new association.  In the past the Forest Service has performed historic cabin restoration projects, participated in the Traditional Building Skills Institute in Ephraim, and conducted important master planning throughout the service region.

In honor of the 100th birth year of architect, preservationist, and educator James Marston Fitch (1909 -2000) the Board of Trustees of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation is planning a one-day symposium on the topic of esthetics in architectural preservation.

In honoring Professor Fitch's legacy during the centennial year of his birth, the Fitch Foundation will engage today's leading heritage protection practitioners in one of Jim Fitch's favorite topics of discussion and reflection. The program will explore manifestations of and reasons for the appearance of America's built environment today that has been so influenced by the preservation movement in recent decades.

The Preservationist's Eye: Esthetics in Reuse and Conservation of the Historic Built Environment will be held Saturday, 26 September, 2009, at the recently restored Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (15 East 84th Street in New York City). The Institute is headquartered in a beautifully and recently restored mansion that would itself have been a source of dialogue for James Marston Fitch.

The Fitch Charitable Foundation and Columbia University's Preservation Alumni will open the symposium with a reception symposium at 6 PM the prior evening at on the roof terrace of the Arsenal in Central Park, now used as offices of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

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Gravestone Restoration at Traditional Building Skills Institute (TBSI) at Snow College, Ephraim

Date: August 20-22, 2009

Participants in this workshop will learn many of the various aspects of gravestone and cemetery preservation. Participants are encouraged to bring photographs of historic masonry, sculptures, or gravestones that they have concerns or questions about.