| Blair, Nebr., Feb. 3, 2003 -- Jeffrey Spencer, executive
director of Landmarks, Inc., Omaha, will speak on “History and Historic
Preservation in Blair, Nebraska” on Thursday, February 13, at 7 p.m. in the
meeting room of the Blair Public Library. His free public talk is sponsored
by the Blair Historic Preservation Alliance and its new Blair Historic
Properties Registry. At Landmarks, Inc., a nonprofit organization, Spencer is involved with
historic preservation in Omaha. Over the past 35 years, however, because of
family connections he has also made an extensive study of the history of
Blair and Washington County. Spencer has served as a trustee of the Nebraska State Historical Society,
as executive director of the historic General Dodge House in Council Bluffs,
as director of the Library/Archives Center of the Douglas County Historical
Society and as president of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition Historical
Association. He has also been a consultant to local and national
organizations involved in historic preservation. A question and answer session will follow the presentation. |