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The Preservation Alliance of West Virginia
plans, hosts, and
sponsors a wealth of activities to help promote preservation
around our state. Each year, we feature a preservation
conference, held in a different community each time, and
providing a program focused on a specific theme or topic.
Participants can come to hear and participate in sessions
dealing with preservation technique, law, advocacy, and
economics, and tour the fine resources that each community has
to offer. The Preservation Alliance also participates in
History Day at the West Virginia Legislature, where we set of
camp to help educate our legislators on the benefits of
preservation, and to show support for current and pending
pro-preservation legislation. The West Virginia Cultural Heritage Development program, a
joint venture between PAWV and the West Virginia Development
Office, provides workshops on improving businesses, tours,
historic sites, and interpretation around the state, and helps
communities to build cohesive and workable tourism marketing
programs.
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For the first time, 2006 saw the implementation of a series of
hands-on preservation workshops, organized by the Preservation
Alliance of West Virginia. Held in several different communities
around the state, these two-day programs afforded participants
the opportunity to learn different preservation skills and
trades by actually doing them. With the help of different
specialists in each trade, workshop-goers tried their hands at
such skills as masonry repair and re-pointing, restoration of
wooden sash windows, and interior plaster work. September 22 and 23
of this year, in Beverly,
Randolph County, there was a workshop on interior woodwork
restoration. Check back with this website for future events! |
