Upcoming Preservation Retreat:
Sacred Places
September 13-14, 2022
Join the Preservation Trust of Vermont at the spectacular Grand Isle Lake House for a one-of-a-kind retreat that combines great food, gorgeous views, comfortable rooms with an opportunity to identify potential grants and funding for your project and to learn new ways to re-envision, save and use your sacred place.
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Sacred Places Retreat
September 13-14, 2022
Churches, synagogues, indigenous sacred sites, and other sacred places play a critical role in the health and wellness of our communities. These spaces often provide overflow shelters for our most vulnerable citizens or act as community gathering places for cultural performances or events. All the while, these spaces can be challenging to maintain. We offer this retreat in partnership with Partners for Sacred Places, a non-denominational nonprofit organization, to explore potential partnerships for existing churches and sacred places and new uses for under-utilized sacred buildings.
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Registration Deadline:
August 29 at 5 pm.
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2022 Preservation Retreats at the
Grand Isle Lake House
Preservation Retreats at the Grand Isle Lake House are an immersive adult learning experience designed to support anyone undertaking or considering a community development or historic preservation project. Attendees will be asked to present a challenge or issue that once solved will move their project forward. This brief presentation is followed by a robust and informative group discussion with peers, funders and technical support providers.
All retreats begin at 2:00 pm and end after lunch the following day. Space is limited. Retreats often fill up well before the registration deadline so please register at your earliest convenience.
Single rooms, including meals and retreat materials is $135; double room occupancy is $200.
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Covid Safety Protocols
- All attendees are required to show proof of vaccination prior to the retreat. You will receive an email two weeks before the event asking for proof of vaccination.
- The shared room option is only available for people who are attending from the same project/community and/or for couples.
- Due to limited space for overnight lodging, we ask that you send ONE representative for your project or a maximum of TWO people if you are willing to share a room.
- Single Room Occupancy is $135 and includes meals, lodging and retreat materials for one person.
- Double Room Occupancy is a total of $200 and includes meals, lodging and retreat materials for two people.
- In group discussion settings indoors, we require people to remain masked when not presenting.
- Weather permitting, we will share discussion and meals outdoors on the large wrap-around porch overlooking Lake Champlain!
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"Attending the retreat at the Lake House was a wonderful experience. Spending time with people from all over the state who are working on Community Supported Enterprises was inspiring and rejuvenating for me. The exchange of ideas and experiences among the group was so helpful to see challenges with new perspective. It was such a supportive atmosphere and I was able to bring some fresh energy and ideas back to our project. Not to mention the setting of the Lake House is just beautiful - an amazingly restored building in such a beautiful spot. And the food is fantastic!"
-- Debra Fuller, Treasurer, Rupert Village Trust, Rupert, VT
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Energy Efficiency and Historic Preservation
October 11-12, 2022
Are you struggling to understand how best to weatherize your historic building? Retrofitting historic properties to improve energy efficiency, reduce heating costs and keep historic features intact is possible! Historic buildings were designed to be efficient and take advantage of the resources available at the time of construction - sunlight, airflow, water.
This retreat will explore how best to approach energy retrofits to maximize the building's inherent efficiencies and will share best practices that generally will not impact the historic character of your building.
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Registration Deadline: September 26 at 5 pm. |
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The Preservation Retreats are underwritten in part by generous support from the Kelly Lorraine Baggett Fund. Kelly was a UVM Graduate, a 31-year veteran of the United States Forest Service, and a former resident of Burlington, VT, where she spent many hours restoring and caring for her historic brick home overlooking Lake Champlain. Kelly won many awards for her outstanding contributions in research pertaining to sugar maple decline and American elm restoration, and wrote or co-wrote numerous scientific papers during her career. This fund pays homage to Kelly’s passion for history, the environment, and scholarship.
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We are grateful for our partnership and underwriting support from The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. |
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