Cue those spotlights! Load those confetti cannons! Each year, the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards celebrate remarkable preservation work across the state. In a field where the losses are so permanent and can feel so personal, it’s important to take the opportunity to applaud these success stories! Continue reading
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The Calamity of Donora, Pennsylvania
As Halloween morning dawned on Donora in 1948, twenty people lay dead while half of the town’s population was sick. Within the next month, fifty more people would die because of the incident and the death rate in the town would remain elevated for decades to come. Continue reading
Hiking History on Pennsylvania’s Appalachian Trail
Think of Pennsylvania’s section of the famous Appalachian Trail, and generally you think of green mountain vistas, woodsy wilderness, and for anyone who’s hiked it, endless ROCKS. Continue reading
Hazard Mitigation in a Historic Context: Wrapping up the Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative
Hazard Mitigation in a Historic Context – Wrapping up the Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative
Three years ago, the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) announced that we were embarking on a new initiative to, for the first time in this office’s history, address the risks posed to historic properties by natural hazards, storms, and disasters. Continue reading
Now is the time for all good preservationists to put on their thinking caps! Do you know of a great project, person or organization that deserves recognition with a Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Award, the state’s highest preservation honor? Continue reading
“Ketchup” with Pittsburgh’s H.J. Heinz
Did you know that Pittsburg’s H.J. Heinz was one progressive dude!? Continue reading
What’s in a name like “Pennsylvania Archaeological Data Synthesis: The Beaver Creek Watershed?”
The Pennsylvania Archaeological Data Synthesis: The Beaver Creek Watershed B is a mouthful of words, to say the least.
Each year, the statewide nonprofit Preservation Pennsylvania puts out a call for nominations to its Pennsylvania At Risk list, made up of sites determined to be among the commonwealth’s most endangered historic resources. In 2018, four remarkable places that are part of Pennsylvania’s history were added to the list and will become Preservation Pennsylvania’s work priorities for the year. Continue reading
Get to Know PHMC’s Executive Director!
If you’ve been reading our blog with any frequency, you know that we believe that a large part of what makes PHMC great is the people who work here. This interview with PHMC’s Executive Director, Andrea W. Lowery, gives you a chance to get to know her better. Continue reading
Punching through the Plowzone
Archaeologists are always on the ready for the next mythical idea of what we are and what we do. We don’t dig dinosaurs or find buried treasure (at least the kind that entails riches untold). We don’t all work in academia and, yes, our parents likely told us there were no jobs in archaeology.
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