HRC Happenings

This Place Matters!

	This Place Matters is a photo-sharing campaign that was started by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2008 to help raise awareness for and celebrate many culturally diverse and unique communities across the United States.

This year the Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission is launching a local This Place Matters photo-sharing campaign. The HRC would like to find out what buildings, structures, and places matter to you. Gather your friends, neighbors, family, coworkers, and/or anyone else who shares the same feelings about a particular place and share the passion, excitement, and enthusiasm that you have for that location with us by sending us your photo.

	It is up to you to make sure your favorite houses, neighborhoods, churches, school, downtown building, farm, bridge, statue, hangout, or just someplace that matters to you is included.

How do you get involved in this fun campaign?
Sharing your photo is easy:

Print the "This Place Matters" [pdf/770kb/1p] sign.
Have a photo taken at your favorite place. Make sure you or someone in the photo holds the This Place Matters sign. It can be one person or a large group of people.
Post your photo on the City of Winston-Salem's Facebook page (tinyurl.com/cwsfacebook). Click in the "Write Something" box and add your comments about the photo, then click on "Photo" to browse for your photo and upload. Alternatively, e-mail the photo to michellem@cityofws.org with "This Place Matters" in the subject line. Be sure to include the names of those in the photo and where the picture was taken.
Optional: Include a few lines about why this place matters to you!
Come see your photo on the city's Facebook page and see the places that matter to others. And tell your family and friends to submit their own!

TV-13 "This Place Matters" video

Remember, feel free to submit as many photos as you like. We want to know about each and every place Forsyth County! The idea of this campaign is to know what places matter to YOU!

6/2/2009