Join the PAWV Board of Directors, partners, and friends as we celebrate preservationists and projects across the state of West Virginia during the annual awards banquet. There will be a cocktail hour, silent auction, raffle, tour of the historic Ice House, catered dinner, cash bar, and a keynote address with Nicholas Redding, President & CEO of Preservation Maryland. Mr Redding will present the talk entitled Stories from PreserveCast: What 10,000 Minutes of Podcasting Can Teach Us about Preservation, Relevance, and the Future of Our Field. The evening will close with the award ceremony.

Mr. Redding also serves as the host of the weekly national podcast, PreserveCast, and he will discuss how the podcast has provided the organization with the opportunity to explore complex subjects in a more in-depth manner. Redding will also reveal what the interviews have uncovered about both the guests and the future of the field of preservation. Redding will draw on anecdotes from the nearly 370+ episodes recorded since the podcast launched to illustrate how the field is changing, the relevance of preservation, and how audiences are consuming and reacting to preservation content.

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