HCN Goes AiP and Announces Their 2010 Schedule of Volunteer Vacations

Adventures in Preservation's 2010 projects offer historic preservation-related travel, training and volunteer opportunities around the world. Project locations include Kenya, Slovenia, Armenia, Albania, and several US states.

Heritage Conservation Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to saving the world’s architectural heritage, has changed its name to Adventures in Preservation, effective September 1, 2009. AiP will continue offering the same high-quality, hands-on volunteer vacations they have offered since 2002, giving participants the opportunity to help preserve historic buildings around the world. The new name is intended to highlight the participant experience and reflect the critical role that workshop participants play in each project’s success.

Adventure in Preservation’s 2010 series of hands-on building conservation workshops begins in February in the World Heritage Site of Lamu, Kenya, with participants learning skills needed to repair and restore a traditional coral rag building.

In Armenia in June, volunteers will work alongside students and local masons to restore an earthquake-damaged masonry building. Also in June, AiP volunteers return to Cairo, Illinois to continue the repair and restoration of historic “shotgun”-style houses for use as affordable housing.

August will see a return to Slovenia to restore a historic masonry cottage badly damaged by inappropriate repairs. Participants will learn how to re-lay and repoint a stone wall and repair a traditional stone oven. From there, AiP travels to Gjirokastra, Albania to continue supporting efforts to save Ottoman-era tower houses, many in danger of collapsing.

AiP’s first family-oriented workshop will involve a week-long immersion in the Old West mining town of Nevada City, Montana. Activities will involve chinking an old log house, working with a blacksmith, panning for gold, and cooking meals the way it was done over 100 years ago.

Workshops are also planned at the Jay Heritage Center in Rye, New York, where volunteers will be involved in restoring the 1907 carriage house, and the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, New York, where galleting work will continue in the terrace garden.

Adventures in Preservation is a non-profit organization that supports community-based historic preservation projects. Their one- and two-week hands-on volunteer vacations give volunteers the opportunity to learn preservation skills while actually restoring buildings and experiencing the local culture. Learn more at www.adventuresinpreservation.org.

Related Announcements: Press Release

• 11-16-11 - Early Evidence of Humans
• 11-16-11 - Hells Canyon Gives Up Secret - Textiles Discovered in 2008 Recently Dated
• 11-08-11 - SWCA Environmental Consultants Celebrates 30th Anniversary
• 10-06-11 - Idaho Archaeology Events October 2011
• 09-11-11 - Wrapped in Eternity Falcon Mummy Exhibit & Lecture Opening Sept. 10, 2011
• 07-25-11 - Egypt and the Current State of Affairs for Antiquities
• 07-18-11 - History, Wildlife and Land Preservation Can Exist
• 06-16-11 - Top 5 List Of Ways Historic Preservation Can Save The Day!
• 06-02-11 - AiP Announces New Partnership with Preservation Delaware: First Project Launches in August 2011 at Bellanca Air Service Hangar, New Castle
• 05-08-11 - Archaeologically Rich Property Being Condemned by Multi-Billion Dollar Private Company