Celebrating Maryland’s Preservation Awards and Huntingtown High School

February 6, 2014

Maryland Historical Trust Historic Preservation , Leave a comment

By Patricia Samford, Director of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory

Pictured left to right: Joyce Leviton (Senator Cardin’s Office), Kim Popetz (MAC Lab), Christiana Nisbet, Jeff Cunningham, Madison Wilson, and Patricia Samford.

A team of high school students from Huntingtown High School (HHS) who researched a mid-19th century privy pit as part of an archeology project with Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum (JPPM) and discovered a wealth of Civil War-era household items, was recognized yesterday with a 2014 Maryland Preservation Award from the Maryland Historical Trust.

Returning to the Scene of the Find

October 1, 2010

Andrew Ratner Historic Preservation , Leave a comment

We grasped that it was a big deal when Nichole Doub, head conservator at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory (MAC Lab), was invited to speak about the lab’s recent work before the New York Academy of Sciences. But we were even more impressed when we realized that the academy’s members over the years included, to name a few,  Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson and Margaret Mead. No small amount of brain power there. more…

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