On Friday, November 19th, 2010, the Historic Preservation department hosted an Amphitheater clean-up event. Students across the academic spectrum gathered at the amphitheater behind Trinkle and Mason hall Friday afternoon and, for approximately three hours, helped faculty remove trash, leaves and debris from the seating and stage area. According to the UMW website, the amphitheater was first opened by the University 87 years ago, in 1923. Since its creation, it has been used extensively for graduation commencement exercises, drama rehearsals, Eagle Pipe Band practice, impromptu class meetings and social events. Because maintenance and custodial staff are not required by the University to tend to the Amphitheater, it has fallen into disarray and obscurity over the past several years. Recently, an accident involving the collapse one of the columns and the injury of a non-university resident has brought the amphitheater back into the spotlight. The University is currently debating … [Read more...]
Newsletter Reminder
Reminder: Articles must be submitted by next week in order for inclusion in the Winter 2010 department newsletter. It's not too late to write something if you have not already. Remember, these articles are not meant to be difficult and time-consuming. Simply write a paragraph about something historic preservation related and you will get your name put in a published document. Also, anybody else who has participated in an internship over the summer, please send me your short blurbs! The ones I have received thus far are awesome. Due Date: September 27 Send To: mford@mail.umw.edu Thanks for all your help! … [Read more...]
New Historic Preservation Department Website Unveiled
Welcome to the new HISP website! After many years of obsolescence, the old system is finally being retired. The new site does away with the broken links and important information hidden in various sub-sub pages. No more searching through page after page to find the piece of information you need, only to realize what's there is years old! Instead, the new system has been streamlined and reorganized to make navigation intuitive. Some of the new features include: - A completely reorganized "major requirements" page. You can search for a course and see how it fits in your graduation plan on a single page, and pdfs of syllabi are accessible directly from both the course list and the diagram. Ditto the scholarships: all the info you need on a single page. - The Job Bank is now much easier to search through thematically, and you can also look for jobs geographically in the embedded Google map. - Because the new system is much more flexible than the old, we can now actually post news and … [Read more...]