Preservation, Modernism, and Revitalization: The Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation will host its
31st Louisiana Preservation Conference & Honor Awards Luncheon in Shreveport, April 14-16, 2010, at the Shreveport Convention Center. Special keynote speaker will be Pratt Cassity of the University of Georgia. Tours of historic sites in the Shreveport area will be offered, as well as a dinner on April 14 and educational sessions throughout the day on April 15. For more info contact the LTHP at (225) 930-0936 or [email protected]; click here to download a pdf version of the registration brochure.

I am so glad I got to attend Thursday’s sessions of the this convention and the Thursday evening bus tour of downtown museums. I was proud of Shreveport. We looked like a city on the move, full of potential.