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Preservation easements can be such powerful tools as we seek to permanently preserve important events in US history.

Comment made by Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Project 2025: “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Learn about the GOP’s Project 2025 plan for the Trump presidency. You can see the video here. Vote Blue - our Democracy is hanging in the balance.

Catch our latest episode with Andrew Lear, founder of Oscar Wilde Tours and Shady Ladies Tours. Discover the secrets of art and history!

Juneteenth (June 19th) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.   Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. June 19th officially became a federal holiday in 2021.   I encourage you to read more about Juneteenth here: The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth | National Museum of African American History and Culture (si.edu) (See below) Also, here is some of the text from the Emancipation Proclamation:   "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom” Abraham Lincoln     You should know this, but if not, The Emancipation Proclamation did not lead to the Civil War. The Civil War started two years earlier in 1861, primarily over disagreements over slavery, and ended in 1865.

Kris Hoellen is an indomitable spirit. She speaks to hiring Builders -- people who can execute and can balance action and quality while keeping an eye on the strategic vision. You don't want to miss this episode of The Business of Non-Profits Podcast! #nonprofits #nonprofit #strategy #culture #moonshot

Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara: Standing on the front porch of Brumby Hall, the location of the Gone With the Wind Museum, is a lifesize statute of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, the main characters of the novel Gone With the Wind, written by Margaret Mithell and published in 1936. The setting for the novel is Clayton County and Atlanta, Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. https://lnkd.in/gzViTRT5

George Washington Carver, front row, center, poses with fellow faculty of Tuskegee Institute in this photograph taken in 1902. Here's a link to the current episode, which is about George Washington Carver: https://lnkd.in/gcnzch7D

Why is safeguarding our heritage so crucial? Our heritage serves as a reflection of our identity, offering symbolic, historical, cultural, and social value. It is imperative that we unite in the preservation of our heritage and actively combat #IllicitTrafficking. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/exXMXrwB

https://lnkd.in/gUQQY3gs JFK's ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, APRIL 27, 1961 "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match." Ever wonder why he was assassinated?