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You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to?email updates?about historic cemetery preservation from the Texas Historical Commission.
At the Texas Historical Commission, we pride ourselves on delivering the premier historic preservation and heritage tourism event in the Lone Star State. Our annual Real Places conference consistently offers top-notch sessions, workshops, tours, special events, entertainment, and networking, while bringing together many different audiences under the banners of history, heritage, and preservation.
Where else can you join County Historical Commission members, historians, archeologists, historic preservation officers, design review board members, downtown revitalization professionals, architects, engineers, curators, interpreters, educators, nonprofit staff and volunteers, heritage tourism professionals, THC staff, Texas Heritage Trail Regions, and many more?
These people come to Real Places for the quality programming designed with them in mind. We hope you will join us and them.
Presented again by the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission in partnership with Phoenix I Restoration and Construction, LLC, Real Places 2024 will take place April 3-5 both online and in person at the Renaissance Austin Hotel.
Real Places 2024 will feature more sessions and speakers than ever before! We?ll have over 60 sessions, workshops, and tours; five keynote sessions; more than 100 expert speakers from across Texas and the U.S., several fun networking events; and new activities such as the short ?lightning sessions.?
Virtual attendees will be able to attend all sessions, and both virtual and in-person attendees will have access to recordings of all sessions for up to 60 days?you won?t have to worry about choosing between great concurrent sessions!
We have a lot of content about cemetery preservation this time, including the following:
- Preserved in Perpetuity: Protecting Historic Concrete Grave Markers (hands-on pre-conference workshop with limited capacity?act fast to claim your spot!)
- No Cemetery Left Behind: Protecting Abandoned Cemeteries
- Successes, Challenges, and the Future of the Sugar Land 95 Memorialization Project
- Representation Matters: Strategies for Listing Historic Cemeteries in the National Register
- The Forgotten: An Unanticipated Discovery of a Migrant Cemetery in Milam County
These sessions might also be of interest to people involved in cemetery preservation:
- Cultivate Support for Grassroots Efforts
- Doing the Deed: Historic Deed Research Techniques
- Solidify Your Structure?How to Repair and Repoint Masonry
View the full conference schedule to see other sessions that can help you advance your organization, your mission, and your preservation projects.
ACT NOW to save up to $150?early-bird savings only last through December 15. Additional discounts are available for students and organizations that register multiple people at the same time, and hotel stipends are available on a limited basis to qualified individuals?don?t delay, as hotel stipend applications are due by December 15!
Please register today and pass this on to friends and colleagues involved in historic preservation, archeology, heritage tourism, historic sites, museums, and downtown revitalization, so they don?t miss this once-a-year opportunity!
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