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Interpretive Planning Projects

• Texas Historical Commission
• Austin, TX
• INTERPRETIVE/ HISTORIC FURNISHING PLANNING/ ARCHIVES ASSESSMENT AND ORGANIZATION – Magoffin Home State Historic Site/ El Paso, TX. Project Director/ Interpretive, Historic Furnishing, Archives Organization Plan (2017 -2018)
• INTERPRETIVE PLANNING – Fort McKavett State Historic Site/ Menard County TX. Project Director/ Interpretive Master Plan. (2013 - 2014)
• INTERPRETIVE PLANNING – Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site/ Brazoria County TX. Project Director/ Interpretive Master Plan. (2012 - 2013)
• INTERPRETIVE PLANNING – Sam Rayburn House Museum / Bonham, TX. Project Director/ Interpretive Master Plan. (2012 -2013)
• INTERPRETIVE/ ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING – Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site / Denison, TX. Project Director/ Interpretive /Architectural Master Plan. (2011 - 2012)
• INTERPRETIVE PLANNING – Starr Family Home Historic Site/ Marshall, TX. Project Director/ Interpretive Master Plan. (2011)
• HHM Cultural Resource Management
• Austin, TX
• INTERPRETIVE PLANNING – Floyd Lamb Park – Tule Springs Ranch Historic Area/ Las Vegas, NV. Principal Author/ Docent Manual. (2010-2011)
• INTERPRETIVE PLANNING - Naval Air Station/ Pensacola, FL/Strategic Interpretive Plan. Consultant/ Reviewer. (2006-2007)
• County of Mercer New Jersey
• Trenton, NJ
• INTERPRETIVE PLANNING – Living History in 1900 Henry Phillips Farmhouse/ Howell Living History Farm.  Author/ Interpretive Plan. (2006- 2008)
• Portcullis, Limited
• Reston, VA
• INTERPRETIVE/PRELIMINARY MASTER PLANNING - is Fort George Project/ Restored 18^th century French Fort in Grenada, West Indies. Planning Advisor. (2004-2005)
• Howell Living History Farm
• Titusville, NJ
• INTERPRETIVE/MASTER PLANNING – Pleasant Valley Historic District/ Preliminary Planning for the Pleasant Valley Historical Park with Howell Living History Farm as its hub. Planning Advisor. (2003-2004)
• Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, Inc.
• East Durham, NY
• INTERPRETIVE/MASTER PLANNING - Irish Village East Durham Project/ A Proposed Recreation of a 1860s Rural Village from the Province of Munster, Ireland. Project Director. (2002-2003)

Other Planning Projects

• West End Museum
• Boston, MA
• STRATEGIC PLANNING – Project Director/ Strategic Master Plan. (2014 - 2015)
• ALHFAM (Assoc. for Living History, Farm & Agricultural Museums)
• CONFERENCE PLANNING/MANAGEMENT – 2007 Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM. Conference Coordinator/ Planner. (2006-2007)
• Residential Living History Project
• Tucson, AZ
• FEASIBILITY PLANNING - Residential Living History Concept. Planning Advisor. (2007)
• BRC Imagination Arts, Inc.
• Burbank, CA
• EXHIBIT PLANNING/REVIEW – 1862 White House Everyday Kitchen/ Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum/ Springfield, IL. Planning Advisor/ Researcher.  (2004)

Research & Archives Projects

• JAR Archives
• Philadelphia, PA
• ARCHIVES MANAGEMENT/PLANNING - Private records of prominent mid to late 20^th century public servant. Project Director/ Archivist. (2005-2010)
• Jacob Van Antwerp Papers
• Brooklyn, NY
• ARCHIVES ORGANIZATION/ TRANSCRIPTION – Seventy-five Civil War Letters of Lt. Jacob Van Antwerp, 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Project Director/ Archivist. (2011 -2013)
• ABC- CLIO, LLC
• Santa Barbara, CA
• RESEARCH/WRITING – World of a Slave (Two Volumes): Encyclopedia of Material Life of Slaves in the United States. Published by Greenwood Press, 2011. Author of three entries: Cloth, Clothing Allotments and Dependencies. (2009)
• Leroy Historical Society
• Leroy, NY
• FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH - Le Roy Family, Early 19th Century New York City Merchants/ Financiers. Researcher. (2002)