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My wife Elizabeth and I started History Matters four years ago and it's a
foundation that's designed to help local communities raise money for historic
preservation
we do it in a variety of ways: we'll do dinners, galas, meet-and-greets where
people paid to come to or we mainly do it through writer's workshops. We go into
to a community, we set up a writer's workshop,
we teach four hours on the craft of writing - a very intensive four-hour
session.
You buy your way and all of those events with a contribution, and every dime
that's raised goes to the historic project. I don't charge to come, I don't charge
expenses. I actually pay my own way to go to all of these. We, so far, we've taught around two
thousand students around the country. W e've had around seventy events. We've
raised around six hundred thousand dollars for various historic projects.
We've done cemeteries, documents, posters, rare books, museums, libraries, you name it
we've done a project to help raise money to restore it. The thing that would make me the happiest
is that a hundred years from now they're still there,
that they're still there, that they're still available, that you can still look
at them, you can still appreciate them, you can still learn from them. The
object is history does matter so we want to make sure that it's around for the
next generation