Korea, Falmouth and more.

The Korea National Arboretum.

Just back from a week in Korea working on our 5-year interpretive training program.  We finished the draft of our Interpretive Services Text Book - to be published in Korean, as well as the lesson plans and course manual for the first training course - Foundations of Interpretation.

New Project ; Historic Falmouth (Stafford County, Virginia) Interpretive Master Plan. JVA in partnership with Lynn Knight of Management Analysis, Inc. (Virginia) were award the contract to develop the Interpretive Master Plan and Heritage Tourism Analysis/Potential for the historic community of Falmouth, Virginia. Many of Falmouth's early buildings remain standing, including the Cotton Warehouse; Duff Green Warehouse; Cambridge Inn, Temperance Tavern; Barnes House; Magistrate's Office; Counting House; Basil Gordon House; Moncure Conway House (boyhood home of the South's most prominent abolitionist); and Shelton Cottage. For more information about the history of Falmouth (and Stafford County) click on this link: http://www.staffordcountyhistoricalsociety.org/places.html#  The project will start in mid September.

John Veverka's text book Interpretive Master Planning to be reprinted in Italian. Dr. Marta Brunelli of the Universita degli Studi de Macerata, will be undertaking the translation of the text book into Italian in January 2013 with a publication date before the summer of 2014.   IMP was published a few years ago in Chinese as well.

Check out my new InterpNEWS international interpretation newsletter.  E-mail me your e-mail address and I will send you the Sep/Oct issue.

That's the updates for new. 
JV