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One of Kentucky’s BEST annual conferences!
Co-sponsored by the Sierra Club
and the Community Farm Alliance.

Speakers:

Daniel Imhoff, author of Food Fight: Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill and of Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches

and Wendell Berry, Christopher Cook, Judy Wick           and more

Place:  University of Louisville

Registration:  $40 (includes locally grown breakfast and dinner)  Some scholarships available. Registration deadline August 26.

 

 

The Rural Heritage Development Initiative (RHDI) announces scholarships for the 2008 biennial Kentucky Historic Preservation Conference held in Bardstown, Kentucky, September 4-6.  Scholarships will be awarded to interested individuals who live inside the eight county RHDI region of Boyle, Green, LaRue, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Taylor and Washington.  Thirty scholarships will awarded on a competitive basis to provide ½ the cost of the three day conference registration fee.  Scholarships can not be used for the cost of conference tours or other ticketed events.   

The theme for the 2008 conference, Preserving the Spirit of Home, highlights successful preservation efforts throughout Kentucky preserving the historic fabric of communities, the spirit of Kentucky's heritage and the ongoing efforts of the RHDI.  The conference brings together preservation professionals, community volunteers, and those in other professions that work cooperatively with preservationists.  Participants benefit from educational sessions as well as networking opportunities with other attendees.  The conference will include thirty different educational sessions, three plenary sessions and three optional community and regional tours.

The conference is co-sponsored by Preservation Kentucky, Inc., the statewide non-profit preservation organization, and the Kentucky Heritage Council/State Historic Preservation Office with cooperation from the Nelson County Economic Development Agency, Bardstown Main Street, Bardstown Tourism, and the City of Bardstown.

The Rural Heritage Development Initiative is a three-year rural preservation pilot project to implement preservation-based economic development strategies in the eight central Kentucky counties referenced above. The RHDI is sponsored by Preservation Kentucky, the Kentucky Heritage Council, The National Trust for Historic Preservation and funded through a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation with financial match from private donors and the local counties.  

Please take this opportunity to share this announcement with others you think may be interesting in applying for the scholarship.  Conference registration material is attached and can also be found online at www.preservationkentucky.org beginning July 14th.

For more information about the RHDI and to request a Kentucky Preservation Conference scholarship application, visit www.preservationkentucky.org or contact Amy Sparrow Potts, Field Representative, at amy@preservationkentucky.org or 270-765-9235.   Applications must be received no later than, August 8, 2008.

  August 26   

 

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