Preservation in Mississippi! That’s right, our very own blog will be receiving a 2014 Heritage Award for Preservation Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust at the awards luncheon in Tupelo June 10. I wonder if E.L. Malvaney will show up to accept this well-deserved honor in person?
Learn more about the Listen Up! Historic Preservation Conference and Heritage Awards Luncheon at www.listenupms.com.
Other astounding, stupendous and just plain cool preservation victories that will be honored include:
Heritage Awards for Preservation Education
A Time to All Things Video, Delta
Behind the Big House Tour, Holly Springs
By the Hand of an Unseen Poet: The Design, the Mystery and the Restoration of the Charnley-Norwood House Video, Ocean Springs
Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek Video, Gulfport
Hub City Lofts Marketing Plan, Hattiesburg
Mississippi Historic Courthouse Architecture: A Photographic Essay
Randolph School Resurrection Video, Pass Christian
Shaw Homestead Interpretive Program, Barth, Pearl River County
Tales from the Crypt Educational Program, Columbus
The Plantation World of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1792-2012
Heritage Awards for Restoration
Bay Springs School, Kelly Settlement, Hattiesburg
Bolivar County Courthouse, Rosedale
Burrus House, Benoit
Coker House, Edwards
Dexter Hall, Boswell Regional Center, Magee
Enochs Hall, Mississippi School for the Arts, Brookhaven
Medgar Evers House Museum, Jackson
First Baptist Church, Eupora
Immanuel Episcopal Church, Winona
Lamar County Courthouse, Purvis
Mount Moriah School, Tylertown
National Guard “Old” Armory, Amory
Prentiss Normal Institute, Prentiss
Randolph School, Pass Christian
Rectitude Masonic Lodge #323, Gulfport
Shaw Homestead, Barth, Pearl River County
Taborian Hospital, Mound Bayou
Wathall County Training School, Ginntown Community, Tylertown
Watkins Museum, Taylorsville
Robert O. Wilder Building, Tougaloo College
Heritage Awards for Distinguished Service
Dr. Luther Brown, Cleveland
Martha Dalrymple, Amory
Derrick Evans, Turkey Creek, Gulfport
Leonard Fuller, Sr., Gautier
Kennedy V. Johnson, Mound Bayou
Cindy Nelson, Iuka
Robert O. Tatum, Jr., Hattiesburg
Heritage Award for Community Renaissance
Water Valley
Heritage Award for Engineering Excellence
Round Island Lighthouse, Pascagoula
Heritage Award for Excellence in Stewardship of Historic Sites
Tishomingo County Historical and Genealogical Society
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Steele Award for a Catalyst Project
Hub City Lofts: America Building and Carter Building, Hattiesburg
Trudy Allen Award for Outstanding Residential Restoration
Old Homestead, Columbus
Libby Aydelott Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Policy
Speaker of the House Philip Gunn
Mississippi Heritage Trust and Mississippi African-American Historic Preservation Council Award for Excellence in Preservation of African-American Heritage
Turkey Creek Community, Gulfport
Mississippi Heritage Trust and Mississippi Department of Archives and History Award for Excellence in Historic District Preservation
Gateway to History: A Scenic Byway, Madison County
Trustees Award for Exemplary Restoration of a Mississippi Landmark
Charnley-Norwood House, Ocean Springs
Trustees Award for Organizational Achievement
Tougaloo College
Categories: Historic Preservation, Mississippi Heritage Trust, Preservation Education, Preservation People/Events, Renovation Projects
Preservation in Mississippi 
hooray and congratulations!
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Sounds like we are in good company. Glad to see the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain recognized for their work at the Shaw Homestead, among the many worthy projects.
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You never know when ELMalvaney will show up or in what disguise. This is quite an honor, thank you!
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Very well deserved–congratulations to E.L. And all the other winners!
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Major congratulations to the iron-fisted Malvaney, and I am sooooooo happy to see the recognition for Mayor Kennedy V. Johnson of Mound Bayou, and his outstanding work in getting the Taborian Hospital restored, along with the efforts on the Isaiah T. Montgomery house. Work with his administration for those two years was truly a highlight of my life and brought so much to me personally as well as to the students who worked with us in the community.
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This is a well deserved honor! I look forward to each post and have learned so much from reading, plus it gives me a little trip to Mississippi!
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And just think, some of us (okay, just me) would rather have a little trip elsewhere. :)
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Outstanding!! Congratulations! :-)
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