THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, March 30, 1995 TAG: 9503300366
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
LENGTH: Short : 45 lines
``Preservation and Community: Building Bridges to New Constituencies'' will be the theme of the 10th annual Virginia Preservation Conference, Wednesday to April 7 in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Hampton.
The program will seek to promote interest in historic preservation by involving historians, urban planners and archaeologists as well as neighborhood and civic leaders.
The conference will begin April 5 with a tour of Hampton Roads, followed by a reception at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton.
On April 6, several panel discussions will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Hampton.
Highlights will include a keynote speech at 9:30 a.m. by William McDonough, recently appointed dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
There also will be on-site discussions at Fort Monroe, Aberdeen Gardens and Hilton Village.
On April 7, the conference will move to the MacArthur Memorial.
Discussions will include urban development issues, such as the relationship between Norfolk's existing downtown and the proposed MacArthur Center shopping mall.
There also will be a panel on ``Diversity in Preservation - Teaching with Historic Places.''
Conferees will have a chance to tour the old Portsmouth Courthouse, historic churches and sites important in Norfolk's African-American heritage.
Lunch speakers will be Norfolk City Councilman Mason C. Andrews and W. Brown Morton III, director of the historic preservation program at Mary Washington College.
Also speaking that day will be Amy Waters Yarsinske, author and urban planner, and Timothy Beatley, chairman of the planning department at U.Va.'s School of Architecture.
Registration by Saturday is encouraged. For information, call 664-6283 or the Preservation Alliance of Virginia at 1-703-886-4362. by CNB