Join us as we sit down with Olive Theodore, founder of Walrus Boat Recycling, a nonprofit project centered around saving and upcycling boats, and the capital campaign manager of the Center for Wooden Boats, aiming to connect each of us to Seattle’s living maritime heritage of building, exploring, and using small boats through hands-on experiences. […]
On this special-release episode of PreserveCast, we’re sitting down with Jack Gary from Colonial Williamsburg’s Department of Archaeology to discuss the opening of a “new” site at Colonial Williamsburg. Today, on Juneteenth, Colonial Williamsburg is opening a powerful chapter of American history, the Williamsburg Bray School, the nation’s oldest-known schoolhouse used to educate enslaved and […]
This week we’re sitting down with Susan McMahon, Executive Director of the Landmark Trust USA, a nonprofit organization that preserves historic properties and makes them available as short-term vacation rentals. Susan has a background in community development and historic preservation. Historic preservation has always been a professional pursuit and a personal passion of hers.
On this week’s PreserveCast we’re joined by Kathryn Mayer, who built a searchable database of 19th-century coroner’s records with the Baltimore City Archives. We’re chatting about her project and more about how to evaluate historic information.