What do our local Asbury United Methodist Church, Kent County Alms House, and Charles Sumner GAR Hall have in common?
Each one has received important preservation assistance from PRESERVATION MARYLAND, allowing them to preserve their buildings and continue their missions for decades to come.
As its name implies, Preservation Maryland focuses on preservation within our State. Its history traces that of many preservation groups across the nation – established first to save the impressive, then-running house museums and later broadening its net to focus on advocacy, grants, and outreach. Executive Director Nicholas Redding will discuss what’s next for the 84-year-old organization and how the organization intends to make preservation a priority for the next generation of Marylanders.
Mr. Redding is a graduate of Shepherd University. He also serves on the board of the Clermont Foundation and has been appointed twice to the Frederick County Historic Preservation Commission. Formerly, he oversaw the operations of Long Branch Plantation, a 400-acre working farm and historic site in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, spent five years on the staff of the Civil War Trust in Washington, D.C., and has worked as a Park Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park and at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. He currently lives outside of Frederick in a historic home with his wife and two beagles.
Join us for History Happy Hour and learn more about preserving our history. 4 p.m., Friday, March 6, 2015, Bordley History Center, corner of High and Cross Streets. Admission is free. Wine and cheese will be served.
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