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The RESOURCES section offers updates on grant and funding opportunities, helpful publications, and PreserveList to helped you find skilled preservation experts (a partnership with Preservation Maryland). Our Link Library will be regularly updated to help you find authoritative guidance on a wide range of topics, from climate change and energy efficiency to historic cemeteries and the neighborhood toolkit from Penn Praxis (you might have heard about at the 2019 conference).
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Church Adaptive Reuse Opportunity in Centre County, Pennsylvania
First Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte in Centre County, PA, seeks adaptive reuse
Mod Betty’s Whirlwind Tour of Pennsylvania
Preservation Pennsylvania recently hosted Mod Betty of Retro Roadmap for a whirlwind tour of Pennsylvania. For the full-capacity free webinar, she divulged the niftiest spots to visit in each of the Commonwealth's 67 counties. The event was sponsored by Lincoln Highway Legacy.
Tour PA’s retro best in just one hour with Mod Betty!
Join us for a whirlwind tour via Zoom on Thursday, June 8, when Mod Betty of Retro Roadmap will reveal her #1 retro pick for each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties.
Mindy Crawford named Preservation Hero of the Quarter
Preservation Action has named Preservation Pennsylvania's Executive Director Mindy Crawford as the Preservation Hero of the Quarter.
2021 Pennsylvania At Risk
The 2021 Pennsylvania At Risk are Fort Halifax Park (Dauphin County), Satterthwaite House and the Patterson Farm (Bucks County), and the former St. Agnes Church in the Oakland Neighborhood of Pittsburgh (Allegheny County).
Introduction to PA-SHARE Webinar
Whether you’re a grassroots advocate or a CRM professional, you’ll learn to use PA-SHARE as a map-based inventory of historic and archaeological sites and surveys. It’s a primary tool for the public, agencies, and partners to conduct research, make informed decisions, participate in processes, and collect historic and archaeological resource information.
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