Category Archive: Goal 7: Cultivate Political Committment

Courthouse Tour de Force

Happy Valentine’s Day! Today and for the whole month of February, we are unabashedly showing our love for Texas Courthouses. It’s easy to celebrate this heart-shaped holiday and lavish some affection for our beloved courthouses –  visit www.ilovetexascourthouses.org to learn how! Imagine packing your bags and taking 5 days to visit 13 courthouse gems in Texas. That’s more »

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Be Known Far and Wide

Travis Roberts promotes Brewster CHC's role in an interpretive highway signage project at a Statewide Preservation Plan forum and explains how the region will benefit from the effort.

I was raised to be respectful and modest. And though these traits have served me well for many years, I have learned that from time to time you need to raise your hand, speak up, and even put your foot in the door to help people recognize the larger matter or the greater good. Having more »

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Preservation Salon

We hosted a Preservation Salon at Texas’ 2011 Annual Historic Preservation Conference to encourage learning, discussion and development of local implementation strategies for the Statewide Plan. Attendees were invited to this fun happy hour for moderated discussions around the plan’s 8 goals, to talk about conference content that related to the plan, to network with session speakers and more »

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Exploring History Lunch Lecture Series

The Exploring History Lunch Lecture Series is a local case study submitted on the “Tell Your Story Page.” Read about this fun and educational lecture series in College Station that has been going strong for nine years, garnered local sponsors and has served as a proactive forum for local preservation issues. As a bonus, all the lectures are more »

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