Preservation Place Making

Spring Conferences: Round One

Upcoming posts will be photo-captures of PowerPoint slide shows recently presented at conferences. This first round was presented in lovely Portales, a courthouse-square town on the eastern edge of the state. Although this blog is dedicated to my current ethnographic research in Truth or Consequences I do meander out to other topics when they help to illustrate my work in town. After the third conference post, I will look at typology, or how we organize our observations into discernible patterns of similar type. The conference I will present at in several hours is titled "Place Ethnography: Notes From the Field," and I should get on with getting it done. The presentation below was given at the annual New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance Conference, which is geared towards professional preservation projects, a priority I attempted to capture in my presentation. It is a work in progress, like just about everything in this world. If you would like a copy of this PowerPoint (to use at will), send me an email at tberger@unm.edu. It will eventually be posted online at the Healing Waters Trail site and other locations. There are more than 30 slides, so this will take a while to complete. Once I am done, I will remove this disclaimer.