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Shepherd's Historic Preservation Program receives grant ISSUED: 21 November 2011 Shepherdstown, WV--Shepherd University's Historic Preservation Program received a $2,490 reimbursable grant from the Two Rivers Giving Circle Donor Advised Fund of Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation to purchase supplies for its efforts to preserve, restore, and document local cemeteries as part of Shepherd's service learning work. Since 2007, Shepherd's Introduction to Historic Preservation course, led by Dr. Keith Alexander, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and coordinator of the historic preservation program, has given students hands-on experience in historic preservation. This grant will allow students to expand from gravestone cleaning to resetting and repairing gravestones at the Lutheran Church cemetery in Shepherdstown where approximately 150 stones will be examined. "We appreciate the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation's support for community outreach," Alexander said. Alexander said that the project will initially start in the spring 2012 semester and begin in earnest in late March 2012 when temperatures begin to warm up. "The grant helps students get great hands-on experience, especially with GPS and GIS coordinates, which will be used in the West Virginia GeoExplorer Project," Alexander said. The GeoExplorer project is an innovative, geographically-based web resource for exploring the history, culture, and architecture of Jefferson County. Funded in part by the West Virginia Humanities Council, the GeoExplorer project makes images, maps, and location coordinates available to researchers, policy-makers, and the general public. Shepherd's Historic Preservation Program is an interdisciplinary concentration within the Institute of Environmental and Physical Sciences, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Coordinated by Alexander, the program has about 15 undergraduate students and features courses such as Documentation of Historic Properties, History of American Architecture, and Oral History. Historic preservation students gain hands-on experience through various service learning community outreach activities, including cemetery preservation and documentation projects. -30- |
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