A blog by Catherine Leonard, Secretary-General I’ve been finalising the 2016 INTO Annual Review this week. Just waiting for the figures from our Accountant now and then we’re good to go. Having this week also drafted a long speech for World Heritage Day however, my creative juices are running dry. It’s cheating but […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Making heritage matter Welcome to the brand-new website for the 3rd Caribbean conference of national trusts and preservation societies. Visit www.curacaoheritage.com, where you’ll find all the information for the November 2017 heritage conference. Discover the subject areas, program details, conference rates and accommodation information. We’ll be posting regular updates on the program, activities, the key-note speakers […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...A blog by Catherine Leonard, Secretary-General “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones,” said John Maynard Keynes. Well, I’m rather regretting blogging about time management and spring cleaning last week! Think big This week has been full of the kind of big thinking I was extolling. […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Keeping History Above Water – Annapolis October 29 – November 1 2017 An international gathering on adapting historic coastal communities to sea level rise Hosted by the City of Annapolis with Support from the Newport Restoration Foundation. October 29 – November 1, 2017 Call for Presenters Originally convened by the Newport Restoration Foundation in April […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...A short blog by Catherine Leonard, Secretary-General Spring cleaning was my goal this weekend. Inspired by National Spring Cleaning Week (6-12 March), I had a long list of jobs from rotating matresses to reorganising the larder. Sad to say, I didn’t complete the challenge. These things always take longer than you think … (more about that […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...A blog by Catherine Leonard, Secretary-General On Friday, I caught a brief report by the BBC’s Russian Correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, in which she took a nostalgic look back at visits to Moscow. I was momentarily transported from a wet drive home to my own five months undergraduate placement to Voronezh in 1992. Voronezh 300 miles south […]
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