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**Events and
News**
Upcoming Events
June 28 - July 4,
2009
Preservation Rendezvous 2009!
Preservation Trades Network (PTN)
Frankfort, Kentucky
This summer an event in Frankfort, Kentucky, the State
Capitol, will be outdoors with on-site camping, which will
be very low cost and will have something for people of all
ages. It will also be a joint event with the Timber Framers
Guild. PTN and TFG members will have a chance to get to know
one another while enjoying the festivities. The sponsors are
the Kentucky Heritage Council, the Frankfort Tourism
Commission and the City of Frankfort. To learn more, go to
http://www.iptw.org/
July 13 - 31,
2009
2009 Preservation Studies Summer Field
School: "Cities of the Dead: Above-Ground Cemetery
Preservation, Conservation, Documentation, Methodology and
History"
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana
The 2009 Preservation Studies Summer Field School will be
offered by the Tulane School of Architecture Preservation
Studies Program and the Preservation Trades Network in
partnership with the 1772 Foundation, National Center for
Preservation Training and Technology and Save Our
Cemeteries. Students will have the opportunity to earn 5
credit hours while learning appropriate documentation,
research and trades methods for repair and conservation at
the historic Lafayette Cemetery No. 1. Scholarships may
become available. Contact Rudy Christian for details.
Registration closes June 19, 2009. For information visit the
PTN website
http://www.iptw.org/
July 17, 3 - 5
p.m.
Tour of Somerset Club, 42 Beacon
Street, Boston
August 25 - 29,
2009
IPTW-ITES 2009: "Finding Common
Ground"
International Preservation Trades Workshop and
International Trades Education Symposium, Leadville,
Colorado
The 13th annual International Preservation Trades
Workshop will be held by the Preservation Trades Network in
partnership with the Colorado Mountain College Historic
Preservation Program. The 3rd International Trades Education
Symposium will be held in conjunction with IPTW 2009. These
combined events will take place in the spectacular natural
setting of the Rocky Mountains and will provide a unique
opportunity for tradespeople, educators, preservationists,
students and others from the US and abroad to exchange
experiences, learn skills and find common ground in the
application of the skilled trades to conservation of the
built environment. Workshops, "hands on" demonstrations of
preservation techniques and symposium sessions will take
place in historic Leadville, Colorado and at the Hayden
Ranch, an intact example of a high country ranch and
agricultural operation which operated from 1872-1947. For
more information visit the PTN website: http://www.iptw.org/
Sept. 15, 2009
Deadline for proposing presentations
for the Feb. 5, 2010 APTNE Annual Meeting: Energy
Efficiency, Insulation and Historic Building
Envelopes
For more information, click
here. Questions, please contact: APTNE c/o Mary
Jablonski, 40 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
mjablonski@jbconservation.com
March 20 - 21,
2010
Glass and Glazing in the 21st Century;
Design and Preservation of Contemporary and Historic
Architecture
Sponsored by Technology &
Conservation, MIT Department of Architecture's Building
Technology Program, and Boston Society of Architects'
Historic Resources Committee
The conference will treat glass and glazing of the
building envelope. It's not too soon to be thinking of
poster presentations for this major conference. If you would
like to propose a poster, please see this link
for more information. The deadline is December 1, 2009.
Special registration rate for previous attendees of
T&C/MIT/BSA conference, valid until September 15th for
this 2010 conference.
Click here for the conference
schedule, a listing of conference speakers, and the
registration form.
The conference, once again, will be held on the MIT
campus. Continuing education credits will be available (16
units for the March 20-21 program; 5 additional units for
the optional stained glass program on March 22). For those
who require a hotel room, a block of rooms have been
reserved at the Cambridge Marriott Hotel at the special rate
of $139 (plus tax) per night - booking code is: tnctnca.
If you have any questions on the conference, please
contact Susan E. Schur, Hon. AIA, FAPT, Conference
Organizer/Chair, Tel: 617-623-4488; Fax: 617-623-2253;
e-mail: ses_tec_con@msn.com
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