The Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation invites you to our 2025 Hopemont Lecture Preservation Workshop featuring Dr. Melynda Price.

Designed for preservation and public history professionals, students, and grassroots leaders, this half-day, interactive workshop will give you and your team a hands-on opportunity to engage with national and local preservationists enacting exciting change and innovation. 

Brief Itinerary

• 8:30am-9am-Coffee, pastries, networking

• 9am-Welcome by Dr. Jonathan Coleman, Executive Director of the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation

• 9:15am-10:15am- Dr. Melynda Price, Co-Director of the Monuments Workshop and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan

• Dr. Price will be answering your preservation questions on saving and sharing stories and places, in conversation with Blue Grass Trust President Dr. Richard Schein

• 10:30am-11:30am-Preservation at Work: A roundtable discussion moderated by Dr. Jonathan Coleman

• Join local leaders engaged in public commemorations and remembrances of Kentucky's history, and explore how communities can expand and build relevancy and excitement around the stories we tell of our collective past.

• Panelists include:

  • Dr. Lori Garkovich, Professor Emeritus, State Extension Specialist UK, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

  • Dr. Amanda Higgins, Executive Director, LexHistory Museum

  • Dr. James Seaver, Community Engagement Coordinator, Kentucky Historical Society

  • Yvonne Giles, Historian, Research Consultant and Content Writer

This event is free and with limited capacity. Please RSVP using the link below.