PRESERVATION OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
THE CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF GREATER BOSTON d/b/a/ The Civil War Round Tables of Massachusetts,............ in existence since 1957, and a leader in Local, Regional, and National Preservation Efforts...Contact Nicole Delaria, Preservation Chairperson at natnic11@aol.com
To make DIRECT donations to our Preservation Efforts, go to www.wainwrightbank.com CommunityRoom.Net Link and find us listed there, and make a donation directly to our accounts that will go to Local Presrevation!!!
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ALWAYS VISIT THESE SITES---
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES in WALTHAM.......www.archives.gov/northeast or email to waltham.archives@nara.gov
THE CIVIL WAR PRESERVATION TRUST----http://www.civilwar.org.....
THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION---http://www.nthp.org
JEFF FIORAVANTI ART---http://www.fioravanti-fineart.com (Preservation Benefits from sale of his Art)
PRESERVATION DIRECTORY---http://www.preservationdirectory.com
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2008 Local Preservation Projects of The Civil War Round Table of Greater Boston-----
---Rehabilitation of The Nathaniel Banks Family Gravesite in Grove Hill Cemetery Main St. Waltham, Ma.
---Preservation and Conservation of the 5400 Civil War Photos of The Medford Historical Society
---Restoration of Room 27 in the State House to a Museum for all Veterans Organizations as required by statute
---Sponsoring Civil War Baseball Game as part of Historic Waltham Days on Sunday, September 14, 2008
---Co-Sponsoring with NARA/Waltham a Civil War Conference on Lincoln and Shaw's Monument and 54th Mass Regt.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!!!---MARK DOWN THE DATES!!!!!---VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!!!----MARK DOWN THE DATES!!!!!---.....................
The C. W. R. T. of Greater Boston has begun a major Fund Raising Campaign to bring more money in for our Preservation -both Locally and Nationally with donors (individual and Corporate) will be known as our PRESERVATION PARTNERS and be acknowledged as such by year's end. All of the monies donated to us will go to the efforts shown above and others and to make even larger contributions to those CWPT and NTHP needs, along with individual. We will begin this with a Fundraiser at Wendy's Restaurant at 806 Main St. in Waltham (Michael Childs, Mgr.) who will donate 20% of ALL sales between 4-8 p.m. on Saturday, September 13, 2008 MARK THIS DOWN and come help pass out Flyers etc. Then also on Saturday, March 13, 2008, as part of The Mayor's Picnic during Historic Waltham Days on The Waltham Common we need help at our Table all or part of that day, along with Sunday, September 14, 2008 from 1-4 p.m.during The Civil War Baseball Game that we are sponsoring!!!
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SOUND THE ALARM!!!! RING THE BELLS!!!!! SEND OUT THE RIDERS!!!!!! -The Commu nity Restoration Act filed by Reps. Stephanie Tubbs jones (D-OH) and Phil English (R-PA) House Bill HR 1043 and Senators Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) Senate Bill S584. we urge EVERYONE to contact your U.S. Senator or Congressman by telephone or email or mail and urge them to support this Legislation along with The CWPT Preservation Act of 2007.
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Representative Ted Poe (R-Texas) has introduced HR 4973 which will make desecration, damage or destruction of a Veteran's gravesite, memorial or headstone, a Federal crime when it occurs in a Private Cemetery (which it is not currently) along weith Public Cemeteries. It would make it a $10,000 fine and 10 years in Prison (Ed. Note....still not enough). this was done as a result of a Marine's gravesite Lance Cpl. Jeremy Burris, 22, killed last october in a roadside bomb event. It is in the House Judiciary Committee right now, so contact them and your Congress people about getting this thing done..........
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The CWPT in 2007 has rescued 1616 acres of Hallowed and Sacred Ground. Overall, they have protected 25, 289 acres of land during these lastr two decades of Preservation. Go to www.civilwar.org/news Congratulations to CWPT, but remember, THIS is where your money is going!!!!They are alsoits dirst 2009 acquisition of 88 acres at Parker's Crossroads, TN. as part of its overall 2009 Campaign.
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Wal-Mart is donating $250,000 to The African Meeting House on Beacon Hill, built in 1806, and has always been a key factor in the Nation's Antislavery Movement, especially here with The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. (Ed. Note)...Two thoughts on this are that It is definitely NOT enough from the Wal Mart Corp., and secondly, let us think about the tragic irony that this is money that is essentially coming off the backs of modern day slaves, a story about Wal mart that is well documented).