ST. CROIX — Conservation and preservation remains a very important part the of documenting cultures and Denmark is a leader in such practices. At its first Thursday Lecture of 2016, an informal panel will discuss three modes of conservation and preservation and their respective best practices, a press release the National Park Service (NPS) issued this morning has revealed.
NPS says that it has a simple understanding of the reuse and recycling of everyday waste materials which has been practiced for many years. However, on an archival level, the Danish National Archives has been reformatting five million documents from the administration of the former Danish West Indies, the present US Virgin Islands. These will be digitized and placed on the internet and available to everyone worldwide.
On an architectural level, the conservation of structures is an important way of preserving and recycling historic buildings, according to the release. And at the presentation, attendees will learn about projects in the past that have become the foundation for future conservation efforts in Christiansted, and preliminary plans for an upcoming building recycling effort.
The Panel will include the following presenters:
Betsy Rezende is President of the Society of Virgin Islands Historians which is celebrating its 30th year. She will present pictures showing some new landscapes of the city of Copenhagen.
- Anne Walbom is a born Copenhagener. She has been President of the Danish West Indian Society since 2003. She chairs the Cultural and Historical Committee which is working to bring a series of 8 historical papers to be presented in St. Croix, St. Thomas and Copenhagen. She will be speaking on the well-established recycling program in Denmark.
- Bob Boyton, a 5-year permanent resident, volunteers at the St. George Village Botanical Garden Nursery. This past summer he and his wife Gail visited Denmark for the first time. He will speak on the new technologies he saw and experienced in that country.
- Gerville Larsen, A.I.A, is Principal and Owner of Taller Larjas, LLC, Architecture & Design. A 6th-generation Crucian, he has a Degree in Architecture from Cornell University, is a member of the St. Croix Historic Preservation Commission, and is Vice President of the Transfer Day Commission. He will present a primer on how the restoration of the Christiansted Barracks came about and his hopes for a UVI School of Architecture, and the long history of partnership between the VI and Denmark.
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