Main Street Arkansas Update- Augus 4, 2008

OCTOBER 6-8, DESTINATION DOWNTOWN, BAY ST. LOUIS, MS

Main Street Arkansas Calendar August 4 – 8, 2008
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MONDAY Susan – Searcy
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY Cary – Reinventing Communities Conference – LR
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
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IN THIS ISSUE
Photos from Hardy Training
Café Press Store
Eureka Network Press
WM properties on the NR
CDBG & HP
ADPT Calendar
The Demographic Inversion of the American City.
The End of White Flight?
Free Online Training for ADA
Obesity Linked to Newer, Less Walkable Neighborhoods

Photos from our Hardy Training:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29093188@N02/

Here’s our Café Press store I mentioned in Hardy, if you want a MSA t-shirt, mug or other trinket:
http://www.cafepress.com/MainStreetAR
- really, these are best for your local programs. There’s 0 set up cost.

Good Eureka Springs ADN Press:
http://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/1448787.html

Parts of Downtown West Memphis added to National Register of Historic Places
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/nrlist.htm

CDBG & Historic Preservation
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/library/historicpreservation/historicpreservation.pdf

Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism 2009 Spring/Summer Calendar of Events Submissions

The Arkansas Tourism Division is ready to put together the Spring/Summer Calendar for 2009. The submission page is now open. http://www.arkansas.com/calendar/update.aspx

The user name is: public and password is coe2009.

There are rules by which submitted events must follow, so please be sure to pay close attention to those when you login. If you have questions, please contact Donna Perrin at P&T.

The Demographic Inversion of the American City.
http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=264510ca-2170-49cd-bad5-a0be122ac1a9

This article is about the unexpected demographic changes taking place in many cities in the country. (Basically, affluent and mostly white people coming to the downtown areas, poorer and minority residents moving to the suburbs.) What’s ahead, Alan says, are metro areas nothing like what we’ve come to expect: More like Paris and Vienna (affluent core, impoverished suburbs) than what we associate with Chicago and Los Angeles (poor core, affluent suburbs).

And the Wall Street Journal proclaims:
The End of White Flight
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121642866373567057.html?mod=hps_us_mostpop_viewed

- there was a good article on this topic in the March issue of The Atlantic Monthly. What’s been called “white blight” has already begun to effect parts of Virginia, Dallas, etc. Here in LR, there’s a concern that post-Alltel/Verizon takeover West Little Rock may become one of these struggling suburbs.
Free, On-line Training for the Americans with Disabilities Act
If you’re confused or uncertain about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) , the U. S. Department of Justice offers a free, on-line training course at www.ada.gov/reachingout/intro1.htm. Through ten illustrated lessons, you’ll be introduced to basic policies, practices, and procedures that can be adopted by historic sites to better serve visitors with disabilities. You may also find it’s useful for training staff and volunteers and the lessons are organized by topic so can focus on specific issues. Best of all, you can follow the course at your own pace and there’s no test!

This Old Healthy House
Obesity linked to newer, less walkable neighborhoods
http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=072808-1


OCTOBER 21-25 – NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION CONFERENCE, TULSA, OK

October 20-21 - Artlinks 2008: The Value of the Arts in the 21st-Century, Little Rock

NOVEMBER 15-18 NATIONAL TRAILS SYMPOSIUM, LITTLE ROCK more at www.americantrails.org (good place for Rails to Trails information)