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Community Events — Download the Calendar of Events HereMore than 45 New Mexico communities stage approximately 100 preservation events in May, many of them becoming annual tours, hikes to restricted archaeological sites and demonstrations of traditional practices handed down from generation to generation. Lectures, presentation of oral histories and film screenings also are examples of Preservation Month events held across the state. HPD publishes 5,000 copies of a Calendar of Events as a user guide, giving Preservation Month participants a map to events held statewide in May. The guide comes with photos and stories of historic sites on the State and National registers. People have begun to request HPD hold multiple preservation months with calendars to accompany them, although currently events are held only in May. Hosting communities receive copies of the Preservation Month poster to help them promote their events. Deadline HPD enourages you to provide us with information about your community Heritage Preservation Month event. To include your community event in the Calendar of Events, please fill out a Heritage Preservation Month Event Form and return it to HPD via e-mail, or by mailing it to HPD on or before Mar. 3, 2008. If you cannot read a MS Word file, please download the Rich Text version.
The Calendar is published in April, one month before Preservation Month, to allow adequate planning and publicity for events. Photo attachments pertaining to your event are encouraged. Awards
George Tomsco and Stan Lark, two original members of the Fireballs, performed at the 2007 Heritage Preservation Awards ceremony in honor of Kenneth and Shirley Broad receiving their award. Since 1970, the New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee (CPRC) has annually presented Heritage Preservation Awards to individuals, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and to state and federal agencies that have made significant contributions to the preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and interpretation of the state's unique archaeological, architectural and cultural heritage. Anyone can nominate an individual, organization, agency or business for a Heritage Preservation Award by completing the nomination form (download below). Typically between ten to 14 awards are given at a formal ceremony that takes place each May as part of New Mexico's Heritage Preservation Month festivities. To nominate an individual or organization for a Heritage Preservation Award, you can download the nomination form below (an example of a completed nomination is also available). Complete the form and return to HPD via e-mail on or before March 7, 2008, or by mail to HPD postmarked by March 2, 2007) and include all required materials. If you cannot read a MS Word file, please download the Rich Text version. Requirements and award category descriptions are available to download separately in PDF format. 2007 Award Winners
State Senator John Pinto, 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Lifetime Achievement Individual Achievement Michael Brasher, of KANW-FM, public radio in Albuquerque. As general manager and the host of KANW’s popular Saturday morning show that features New Mexico music often dedicated to listeners, Brasher has worked for 35 years to preserve community radio with authentic New Mexico flavor. KANW is the oldest FM radio station in New Mexico, and run by Albuquerque Public Schools Heritage Organization Archaeological Heritage Architectural Heritage The restoration of the V-Site of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos not only challenged notions of what should be preserved, but also how to go about it. V-Site is where the Trinity device and “Fat Man” bomb were assembled and later detonated over Nagasaki, an act credited with ending World War II and commencing the atomic age. At one time slated for demolition, the Atomic Heritage Foundation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, HPD and New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance worked together to preserve V-Site following the devastating 2000 Cerro Grande forest fire that destroyed all but the High Bay building. Honored were John Isaacson and Ellen McGehee, of LANL; NMPHA; Jenifer Johnson, of the U.S. Department of Energy; Atomic Heritage Foundation Executive Director Cynthia Kelley; John Fowler, executive director of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, both based in Washington, D.C.; Crocker Ltd, of Santa Fe principals Ed Crocker and Jonah Stanford; and J.B. Henderson Construction, Inc., of Los Alamos, principals Paul Inglat and Fred Schneider. The rehabilitation of the 1934 New Mexico Public Welfare Building in Santa Fe won as much for preserving architectural details as it did for employing innovative, energy-savings devices. It was the first restoration in New Mexico to be certified at the gold level of energy efficiency by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design system employed by the U.S. Green Building Council. Presented awards were George Woods, of Conron and Woods Architects, of Santa Fe; Valerie Walsh, of LEED Management Services, of Lafayette, Colo.; John Wheeless, of the state Property Control Division, of Santa Fe; Hugh McRae, of Cameron construction, Inc. of Santa Fe; and Arturo Jaramillo, of the state General Services Department Heritage Publication State Historian’s Award for Excellence in Heritage Scholarship
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The 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 posters for Heritage Preservation Month.
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Each May, the Historic Preservation Division mounts a statewide outreach program to highlight community preservation events and achievements. An image representing a preservation theme is selected by staff, published as a poster and distributed statewide and nationally to more than 6,000 people and organizations to announce Heritage Preservation Month.