From WOOD COUNTY MUSEUM
Each year in May, during Preservation Month, the Wood County Museums hosts a “This Place Matters” group photo and invite the public and museum members out to participate. This year the group photo was cancelled due to COVID-19.
So instead of a 2020 group photo, we are asking for you to email a photo of you holding a special “This Place Matters” sign and help us celebrate the Wood County Museum with “This Place Matters Week!”
Please post your photos on Facebook or Instagram and tag us (@WoodCountyMuseum) and use the hashtags #ThisPlaceMatters & #WoodCountyMuseum.
Photos can be taken at home or at the Museum, with proper social distancing, of course. Photos are needed by October 25, 2020.
Email photos to: marketing@woodcountyhistory.org
Signs will be available on our website for you to print off or available for pick-up at the Museum. If you have a Museum shirt, wear that too! Shirts are also available for purchase in the Gift Shop. Show the world your Wood County Museum Pride, and that “This Place Matters!”
A Brief History of Preservation Month
From the National Trust for Historic Preservation
The first National Preservation Week was celebrated on May 6-12, 1973. At the annual meeting on October 27, 1972, in Washington, D.C., Donald T. Sheehan, a member of the Trustees Advisory Committee on Membership & Public Relations, proposed the idea of the National Preservation Week as a “means of relating local and state preservation progress to the national effort for the mutual benefits of both.”
The National Trust chose the second week of May because it coincided with the organization’s annual award luncheon, then in its third year.A Joint Congressional Resolution was introduced on February 15, 1973, by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee to designate the week of May 6-12, 1973, as National Preservation Week.
President Richard Nixon signed the resolution into law on May 5, 1973.First Lady Patricia Nixon, who presented the National Trust awards during the third annual Awards Luncheon in the Decatur House Garden on May 8th, also read the Presidential proclamation:“As the pace of change accelerates in the world around us, Americans more than ever need a lively awareness of our roots and origins in the past on which to base our sense of identity in the present and our directions for the future.”Mayors and governors throughout the country have since added their proclamations to President Nixon’s.
This Place Matters is a campaign that the National Trust started in 2009. We encourage National Trust supporters to celebrate places that are important to them using the hashtag #ThisPlaceMatters.
| A Brief History of Preservation Month By: National Trust for Historic Preservation The first National Preservation Week was celebrated on May 6-12, 1973. At the annual meeting on October 27, 1972, in Washington, D.C., Donald T. Sheehan, a member of the Trustees Advisory Committee on Membership & Public Relations, proposed the idea of the National Preservation Week as a “means of relating local and state preservation progress to the national effort for the mutual benefits of both.” The National Trust chose the second week of May because it coincided with the organization’s annual award luncheon, then in its third year.A Joint Congressional Resolution was introduced on February 15, 1973, by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee to designate the week of May 6-12, 1973, as National Preservation Week. President Richard Nixon signed the resolution into law on May 5, 1973.First Lady Patricia Nixon, who presented the National Trust awards during the third annual Awards Luncheon in the Decatur House Garden on May 8th, also read the Presidential proclamation:“As the pace of change accelerates in the world around us, Americans more than ever need a lively awareness of our roots and origins in the past on which to base our sense of identity in the present and our directions for the future.”Mayors and governors throughout the country have since added their proclamations to President Nixon’s. This Place Matters is a campaign that the National Trust started in 2009. We encourage National Trust supporters to celebrate places that are important to them using the hashtag #ThisPlaceMatters. |
