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SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: The Community Preservation Act
DESCRIPTION:The Community Preservation Act: In Your Backyard \nMarch 4\, 2022\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. \nWith\nMassachusetts History Alliance Advocacy Committee\nChase Mack\, Communications Director\, Community Preservation Coalition\nJason Molina\, Chair of Shrewsbury’s Community Preservation Committee\nLinnea Servey\, Chair of Lancaster’s Community Preservation Committee \nWhat is the Community Preservation Act? How can it be used to preserve history on the local level? What are allowable uses? How can your community adopt this bylaw? What kinds of local advocacy need to be done to pass CPA in a town? What are some of the strategies used in running a successful grassroots CPA adoption campaign? Join moderator Erika Briesacher of the MHA Advocacy Committee for a conversation about Community Preservation! \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE.\n \nThis Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Linnea Servey worked to bring the CPA to Lancaster with educational forums presented to Town Boards and via zoom meetings. The article passed at ATM with an overwhelming margin and passed at the ballot with a comfortable margin.\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Chase Mack has been the Communications Director for the Community Preservation Coalition since 2016. The Coalition is a nonprofit organization that helps municipalities in Massachusetts understand\, adopt\, and implement the Community Preservation Act (CPA)\, as well as advocating for CPA at the state level.\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Jason Molina was the Campaign Manager for the ballot question committee\, Community Preservation Shrewsbury\, which led the Town of Shrewsbury to successfully adopt CPA in November 2020. The road to adoption was challenged by local opposition which necessitated the use of a citizen’s petition to trigger the ballot question. Despite uncertainty with a pandemic raging\, the committee still made great progress to champion Town Meeting and voter support through campaign efforts such as a road show with town boards\, public outreach\, mailers\, newspaper articles and letters to the editor\, and a structured social media presence. Despite a pandemic\, a local debt exclusion on the ballot at the same time\, and no support from town officials\, Shrewsbury voters welcomed CPA with an impressive 59% approval. Following the successful campaign\, Jason was appointed as an At-Large member of the Community Preservation Committee and currently serves as their chairperson.\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Dr. Erika L. Briesacher is an Associate Professor of History at Worcester State University\, where she specializes in German History and museum studies\, teaching in the areas of museum studies\, material culture\, German/French/European history\, public history\, and nationalism. She got her Ph.D. in European History from Kent State University in 2012\, and her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Museum Studies and MA in Historical Studies from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2005 and 2006 respectively. She has two books forthcoming: Nordic Days: Festival\, Identity\, and Culture in Lübeck\, 1920-1960 (Lexington Books\, 2022) and Make Me a Mask: Material/Cultural of a Pandemic (Kent State University Press\, forthcoming).\n				\n		\n\nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org \n\nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good.
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SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: Filmmakers and Historical Organizations
DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers and Historical Organizations \nMarch 18\, 2022\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. \nWe’re taking public history to the silver screen in the next Conversation on the Commons! In our latest topic\, “Filmmakers and Historical Organizations” we’ll welcome twice Emmy-nominated producer Andrew Giles Buckley\, and New York Times best-selling author\, award-winning documentary producer\, and long-time history enthusiast Rick Beyer to present on their filmmaking projects with Massachusetts history connections. Have you worked with a filmmaker? Created your own video? Would you like some tips on how to create compelling video? Join us to learn about filmmaking\, innovative public history\, and their fascinating projects! \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE.\n \nThis Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Rick Beyer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, a New York Times best-selling author\, and a long-time history enthusiast. He wrote and produced the PBS documentary The Ghost Army\, telling the story of an extraordinary U.S. Army deception unit in WWII. He also co-authored a bestselling book on the unit\, The Ghost Army of World War II\, and is president of the Ghost Army Legacy Project. Beyer has made documentary films for The History Channel\, A&E\, National Geographic\, and others. He is the author of the popular Greatest Stories Never Told series of history books. His most recent book\, Rivals Unto Death\, is a compelling account of the fateful rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. He leads historical tours in the US and Europe\, and has appeared on CBS\, Fox News\, MSNBC\, NPR\, CNN and elsewhere. After more than 30 years in Massachusetts\, he now lives with his wife Marilyn Rea Beyer\, in Chicago.\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Andrew Giles Buckley is the Host and Producer of Hit & Run History\, a historical novelist\, travel book author\, opinion journalist and world-class storyteller. A two-time Emmy-nominated producer\, Andrew founded Hit and Run History in 2008\, and the public media series has been hosted on GBH’s History site and broadcast on Rhode Island PBS and on local stations from DC to LA. Recipient of over 70 Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Grants and two grants from MassHumanities\, Andrew takes his film crew down to the street level to investigate lesser known chapters of history with a travel element — less Ken Burns and more Anthony Bourdain. He lives in Chatham with his daughter and their two dogs\, cat and rabbit.\n				\n		\n\nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org \n\nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good.
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