10 Ideas for National Preservation Month

What are you planning to do to celebrate?

1. Join RAP!
2. Host a This Place Matters Open House to show off a historic building that has been recently restored or is in need of restoration.
3. Organize a work project to clean up a historic town square, park or cemetery. Share your stories and pictures.
   
4. Introduce yourself to that neighbor you have always wanted to meet.
   
5. Conduct a walking tour through a historic district.
6. Organize a block party, community picnic or period fashion show in a historic neighborhood or park. Take a group photo!
   
7. Interview a local politician and ask them to pose with a This Place Matters sign in front of their favorite place.
   
8. Bury a Time Capsule to be opened in 2059. Include places that you want to still be around for the community fifty years from now.
   
9. Write a story for your RAP newsletter or this blog about living in the District or how you are celebrating Preservation Month.
10. Conduct an oral history interview with longtime residents. If you videotape it, share it! It may be featured it on www.PreservationNation.org.