Preservation Maryland
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History kept practical, local, and alive.
PreserveCast treats history as work people still do with their hands, records, buildings, and local institutions. Its interviews move patiently through preservation practice, from researching a historic property to recreating historic shoes or interpreting heritage tourism.
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PreserveCast is built around the working questions of historic preservation. It is less interested in grand summaries than in the steps that make history recoverable: finding land records, reading old newspapers, sourcing the right leather, designing a heritage tour, or training young people in preservation trades. The format is interview-led and patient. Conversations usually start with a practical frame, then let the guest build the story through examples, materials, places, and institutional context. That rhythm gives the show a useful texture. It can explain Maryland land records and local library access without making research sound remote. It can linger over historic shoemaking long enough to make vegetable-tanned leather, waxes, oils, and old tools feel connected to a larger craft tradition. It can move from ferry history to land use on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, showing how transportation systems leave marks beyond the water. The show also gives space to broader cultural questions. Episodes on architectural heritage and the displacement of cultural heritage widen preservation beyond buildings as objects, asking what architecture can reveal about power, movement, and memory. Other installments follow Revolutionary-era publishing, heritage tourism, pneumatic architecture, and fellowship projects tied to apprenticeships and technical education. PreserveCast is at its best when it translates specialized preservation work into plain language without flattening the complexity. The tone stays warm and careful. It respects expertise, but it keeps returning to what a listener can understand, visit, research, or notice. The result is a show for people who care about old places and the systems that decide their future. It treats preservation as a public practice, shaped by archives, tradespeople, communities, scholars, and local decisions. Its range is broad, but its purpose is consistent: to make the labor behind historical memory easier to see.
Made for: PreserveCast suits listeners interested in architectural history, public history, historic trades, archives, heritage tourism, and the everyday work of saving old places. It is especially useful for preservation professionals, students, local historians, and curious homeowners researching historic properties.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by tying preservation ideas to concrete practice: records, tools, materials, buildings, tours, apprenticeships, and community programs. It makes specialized history feel usable without stripping away the details that make the work credible.
PreserveCast is where the past and present meet to discuss how history impacts today – and tomorrow. Hosted by Nicholas Redding of Preservation Maryland.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
PreserveCast makes preservation legible as historical method, institutional labor, and hands-on care for records, buildings, and traditional craft.
PreserveCast treats preservation as practical work, with Nick Redding asking how historical knowledge is built, maintained, and put to use. Conversations move comfortably between a Nashville digital-tour project, Historic Savannah Foundation's revolving fund, research into…
Historic shoemaking meets John Brown before your history queue has time to become respectable.
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A practical guide to researching a historic house.
PreserveCast treats historic-house research as a practical craft, not a theoretical exercise. Nick Redding sits down with two Preservation Maryland team members to map out where the work starts, which records deserve attention, and how a property's paper trail can be pieced…
A measured look at historic shoemaking as preservation work.
This episode frames historic shoemaking as careful preservation work, not just a technical craft. Andrew Rowland walks through the materials, tools, sourcing, and hands-on methods behind recreating older shoes, which keeps the trade easy to follow while staying close to period…
A clear look at how Historic Savannah Foundation turns preservation into practical civic work.
PreserveCast presents Historic Savannah Foundation as a working model of preservation rather than a museum piece. Collier Neely and Nick Redding trace how the organization bought depressed property, stabilized it, found preservation-minded buyers, and used facade easements to…
A serious look at how revolutionary ideals fed the road to Civil War.
PreserveCast places John Brown within a wider argument about revolutionary ideals, moving from the American Revolution to the stubborn question of equality that still surrounded Harpers Ferry.
A practical look at making local history usable online.
PreserveCast presents NashvilleSites.org as a useful example of how place, story, and digital resources can be held together without flattening the record.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
A season-by-season history show pairing dramatized Rasputin and Salem narratives with historian interviews.
Greg Young and Tom Meyers explain how New York City's streets took shape.
Fashion historians April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary dig into garments, letters, and the people who wore them.
Host Nick Redding of PreserveCast speaks with Preservation Maryland team members Christiana Limniatis and Maggie Pelta-Pauls about how to research the history of a historic property using deeds, maps, census records, and newspaper archives.
PreserveCast returns to Andrew Rowland for a conversation about historic shoemaking.
This episode features an interview with historian Marty Bollinger about his book on the rise and fall of the ferry era in the Chesapeake region and its impact on maritime history and land use.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode explores the life and revolutionary contributions of Mary Catherine Goddard, one of the first women to run a newspaper and Baltimore's postmaster in 1775.
Host Nick Redding introduces a discussion with Dr.
Host Nick Redding interviews Emily Huebner about the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area and its 250th GEO Tour, exploring heritage tourism and preservation work.
Alicia Garsky discusses her Harrison Goodall Fellowship project creating a summer program to connect skilled preservation contractors with young adults interested in preservation trades.
Host Nick Redding interviews Bruno Carvalho about his book on the history of cities and the importance of preservation.
This episode explores the revolutionary ideas of the American Revolution and features an interview with a presidential historian about George Washington's presidency.
Nick Redding speaks with Collier Neely about the Historic Savannah Foundation and its work in preservation.
Katie Calgene and Nicholas Redding frame John Brown as part of a longer revolutionary story.
Host Nick Redding interviews attorney Ben Takis about nonprofit law and its relevance to historic preservation.
Host Nick Redding interviews Gene Kansas about his new book 'Civil Sites' on the historic Sweet Auburn neighborhood and the importance of preservation and storytelling.
Host Nick Redding interviews historian Dr.
Host Nick Redding interviews educators about bringing archaeology and indigenous history to K-12 audiences.
Host Nick Redding interviews historian Pamela McCall about her book on Mrs.
Host Nick Redding interviews Dr.
Host Nick Redding interviews Alex Green about his work with the Harriet Tubman Freedom Center and Harriet Tubman Tours, exploring heritage tourism and historical interpretation.
Host Nick Redding interviews Dr.
Host Nick Redding interviews Dr.
Nick Redding interviews Carol Quillen, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, about her background and passion for history and preservation.
Host Nick Redding interviews Kate Livy about her work in maritime history and preservation, focusing on the Chesapeake Bay region.
Host Nick Redding interviews author Elizabeth Evitz Dickinson about her book on designer Claire McArdle, who revolutionized women's fashion.
An interview with John Chan of Durable Slate Company about historic restoration projects and the trades.
Host Nick Redding interviews Professor Tom Campanella about his book on the public landscapes of Clark and Rapuano.
An interview with Dr.
This episode features an interview with Kathryn Mayer about her project with the Baltimore City Archives, where she transformed historical collections into a database to explore and evaluate historic information.
This episode features an interview with Hank Levine about the preservation and rehabilitation of the Bethesda Meeting House in Maryland, exploring community efforts to save historic buildings.
This episode features Andrew Rowand discussing his work in historic shoemaking and his role at the Eric Sloan Museum, focusing on preserving early American trades and crafts.
This episode features an interview with Michelle Evans, domestic trades manager at Connor Prairie, discussing her background in historic preservation and the museum's work interpreting 19th-century prairie life through heirloom plants and interactive exhibits.
This episode features an interview with city planner and author Evans Paul about Baltimore's Stop the Road movement, exploring the 40-year battle over highway plans and their impact on historic preservation.
Nick Redding speaks with Dr.