Friends of Wilderness Battlefield Receives Historic Preservation Award

For its advocacy in protecting and restoring historic Ellwood Manor, the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, a civil war preservation, advocacy, and education non-profit received the Chairman’s Award for achievement in historic preservation by the Civil War Preservation Trust on Thursday March 4th, 2010. This marks the first time that this award, which is designated to recognize

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March 5th, 2010 | Category: American, Architectural History, Current Events, Historic Architecture of the Day, Preservation, U.S. Civil War

Cultural Resource Management as a Political Solution

The National Park Service handles the bulk of Cultural Resource Management oversight in the United States.

As Martin so succinctly puts it “contract archaeology exists to solve an internal [political] conflict.” Acknowledging that legacy does not demean the value of CRM in Sweden or anywhere else. Instead, it helps those in CRM to recognize that society values both preservation and development, and the conflicts that we experience as CRM practitioners between these two poles are there by

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January 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Cultural Resource Managment