Portsmouth Speakers and Registration
Portsmouth NH Hosts Tenth Keeping History Above Water® Conference May 7-9, 2023 for Portsmouth NH 400th Anniversary During the record-breaking December holiday storm, the... Read More
Keeping History Above Water®: Portsmouth Call for Speakers
Strawbery Banke Museum, the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Planning Department and DPW Water | Wastewater | Stormwater Division, the University of New Hampshire (UNH)... Read More
Newport Restoration Foundation and City of Newport Select Consultant for City’s Design Guidelines for Elevating Historic Buildings
The Newport Restoration Foundation (NRF) and the City of Newport have selected Phil Thomason of Thomason and Associates to develop graphics for the City’s Design... Read More
City of Newport adopts guidelines for elevating houses
“The City of Newport is proud to be one of the first communities in the country to adopt standards designed to help protect some of... Read More
In the News: ‘We Cannot Save Everything’
“Doris Duke did a wonderful thing fifty-some years ago when she preserved these Colonial houses,” he said. “Here we are 50 years later, and it... Read More
America Adapts
It’s official: Keeping History Above Water has entered the wonderful world of podcasts. Doug Parsons, the host of America Adapts: The Climate Change Podcast, joined... Read More
Keeping History Above Water in Florida
A recent piece in CityLab describing how a coalition of archaeologists are working to protect historic resources threatened by rising sea levels, storms, and erosion. The piece... Read More
4 Lessons from Keeping History Above Water: Annapolis
The second Keeping History Above Water conference concluded on November 1 in Annapolis, Maryland, and we have already published day-by-day coverage of the conference’s keynotes,... Read More
Rising Tides Awarded Kaplan Innovation Grant
It’s a good day for social innovator and two-time Keeping History Above Water alumna Victoria Hermann. This morning, the JM Kaplan Fund awarded Victoria its... Read More
Keeping History Above Water 2017: Day 3
The third day of Keeping History Above Water: Annapolis began with a conversation about how the US Navy is responding to flooding and sea level rise,... Read More