Towny Anderson has over 40 years of experience with historic preservation. He has restored historic properties first as craftsman, then contractor, and later developer and owner. He was an independent scholar, cum laude graduate of Middlebury College and attended the Preservation Leadership Training program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Anderson served as Vermont’s first appointed State Historic Preservation Officer, as a Director of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers and as Chair of the Vermont Historic Preservation Advisory Council. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum. Anderson co-wrote groundbreaking statewide legislation encouraging reinvestment in Vermont’s historic downtowns. He was a founding board member of MainStreet Steamboat Springs. Two of his certified historic rehabilitation projects received National Trust Preservation Honor awards. Appointed Executive Director of HistoriCorps in August 2012, Towny Anderson is bringing together everything he loves about historic preservation – buildings, people, beautiful places, and education.
Talking Pretzel History with Tim Snyder of Julius Sturgis Pretzels
Balancing Contemporary Sustainability Standards with Historic Structures with Daniela Holt Voith
Leading the Maryland Park Service with Angela Crenshaw
Historic Charleston Foundation with Winslow Hastie
Historic Shoemaking with Andrew Rowand
Building Futures: Apprenticeship Insights with Jennifer Dewees
The Tenement Museum with Annie Polland
Researching a Historic Property with Christiana Limniatis and Maggie Pelta-Pauls
Historic Trades Apprenticeship with Natalie Henshaw
A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse with Daniel A. Gagnon
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America with Candacy Taylor
Sacred Places with Bob Jaeger
The Goodall Fellowship: South Bend TradeWorks with Elicia Garske
Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence with Dr. Shirley L. Green
Preservation Trades Specialist Training Program at NRF with Alyssa Lozupone & Kris Turgeon
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Time Will Not Dim with Mary Cleary & Michael Knapp
Trades Takeover with Héctor J. Berdecía-Hernández of the Centro de Conservación y Restauración de Puerto Rico (CENCOR)
Exploring Presidential Gravesites with Christiana Limniatis
How to Tell a Complete Battlefield Story: Falling Waters with Scott Vierick
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