Activities

2006

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Estill County Mountain Mushroom Festival

Hot, hot, hot!! Students of the Historic Preservation program put together an informational display on the current research on the Fitchburg Furnace in Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky. Local residents stopped by with questions and stories about the furnace, and students and teachers Bob Ogle and Fred Rogers provided residents with information about the on-going research and outreach activities. We also provided interested local residents with information about the Historic Preservation program at the University of Kentucky.

Winchester Historic Preservation Month

A group of students from the program acted as docents at various buildings in downtown Winchester, Kentucky during a tour of these buildings and their historic ballrooms. Vintage dancers performed in the Opera House ballroom, and HPGO set up a table for a bake sale to earn money for student activities. We raised nearly $20 that day for HPGO, and promoted both Winchester’s on-going preservation plans and the Historic Preservation program at the University of Kentucky.

T-Shirt Design and Sale

To raise money for student activities, HPGO determined to design and sell t-shirts. Once a suitable design was agreed upon, a small grant was procured from the Dean of the College of Design. We then sold these t-shirts within CHAP and at our various activities throughout the year, and were able to open an HPGO bank account. These proceeds will be used to buy supplies and fund other activities as needed for students in the Historic Preservation program.

Old Washington: Mason County, Kentucky

We can’t tell a lie: students in the Historic Preservation program received valuable experience in the field performing documentation and conditions assessments of historic properties in Old Washington, a small town on the Ohio River in Mason County, Kentucky that was very much a part of the passage of pioneers moving into the interior parts of the state, as well as those continuing further down the Ohio River.

Wayne Theater: Monticello, Kentucky

Historic Preservation students gained field experience in performing documentation and conditions assessment reports for the Wayne Theater building in downtown Monticello. The current owner, the Monticello Banking and Trust Co., brought CHAP in to evaluate the building, which the bank plans to renovate and turn back into an auditorium for both the bank’s own private use, as well as use by the community at large. It is hoped the curtain will soon rise again on this venerable old structure!

Trip to Havana, Cuba

A group of students, led by Bob Ogle and Dr. Dennis Domer, traveled to Havana, Cuba and the surrounding area to view that city’s relatively intact and unrestored architecture, which spans from colonial times through the city’s role as an entertainment and gambling mecca in the 1940’s and 1950’s and up to some of the architecture created under the Castro regime. ¡Viva la preservaçion!