Ernest Dollar, Preservationist

by Laurie Paolicelli | May 10 2009

The theme for 2009’s National Preservation Month in May is “This Place Matters!” Preservation Month is designed to raise awareness about the power historic preservation has to protect and enhance our homes, neighborhoods and communities—the places that really matter to us.

From the University of North Carolina to historic downtown Hillsborough, the Horace Williams House; the Burwell School, the Carolina Basketball Museum, we’ve put together a series of 90-second videos to show visitors. We want to make sure that when you do come here you’ll see that who we are is a function of not only who we were, but who we will be. Our narrative is a narrative of the south, and the narrative of the south is a narrative of this entire wonderful country. Click here to enjoy a piece of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough’s history. We welcome you to our North Carolina towns.

Ernest Dollar is a North Carolina native who began working in historic sites in 1993 after completing his B.A. in History and B.F.A. in Design from U.N.C. Greensboro and completed his M.A. in Public History from N.C. State in 2006. Ernest has worked in several historic parks in both North and South Carolina and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill. In 2008, Ernest published a photographic history of Morrisville, N.C. and is working on a history of the end of the Civil War in North Carolina.

View this and other videos by Ernest Dollar on our Youtube Channel!

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