The Historic Preservationist

This episode explores certain primitive colonial tools used for shingle production. How to apply shingles and the different styles of weather boards, sawn clapboards, the jack-plane and studding.

This episode contains step by step methodology for raising the bents into positioning, explanations of fun poles, block and tackle, Plumb bob, summer beams and production of roof skeleton and how shingles were produced.

This episode talks about the conclusions reached about a clients horological object; from the preliminary examination of an object, estimates, records of work, damage and records and guarantees.

This episode tends to explain and delineate exacting definitions of antiquarian horological conservation, restoration and repair.

This episode enlightens listeners into Franklin Roosevelt’s childhood and college years.

This episode examines how the conservator and restorer deals with reversability, replacement components, conversions, marriages and traditional materials.

The conservation and restoration of clocks and watches is a profession that requires a code of ethics to provide a guide to what constitutes good practice.

This episode explains step by step the process of producing a mortise and tenon joint. It goes on to explain the theory of using and producing pegs or tree nails. Last, the foundation and its construction are discussed and the tools required.

This episode of colonial home building describes how timber was moved, carried or drug on carts or wagons pulled by horses or oxen. The episode continues with the seasoning of wood, cutting of timber, saws, chisels and drill bits that were used.

This episode of colonial home building takes us deep into the tools of the trade of log preparation and how to fell timber.

General George Washington concludes his public life to return to the agrarian tasks at Mount Vernon, addressing his crops, slavery and aging.

Colonial home building and traditional wood-working, featuring period tools, techniques and materials.

general Washington opens the first bank, political Parties are created, the whiskey rebellion and militia acts occur. Washington gets re-elected.

This episode finds General Washington as his troops move North to South uniting with the allied forces of Lafayette at Yorktown Virginia

This dissertation by Gregg Perry, furniture conservator, lays down professional points of caring for historic furniture. included are; protection of the patina, limit effects of light, limit effects of relative humidity, understanding insect infestation, good housekeeping and handling.

Antiquarian Horological Conservator, Gregg Perry leads us on a brief history of time keeping. Starting with man’s first need to predict the right time to plant crops 9000 years ago, to understanding atomic time which supplies our ubiquitous cell phones.

Antiquarian Horological Conserver, Gregg Perry leads us on a journey of restoring and conserving 17th-19th century clock dials; including brass, white-panned and enameled surfaces. This dissertation is geared to collectors, museum curators and burgeoning restorers alike.

Historic Preservationist Gregg Perry takes questions from an Argentinian preservation firm, Isabela and Luis Alarcón located in Buenos Aires. Their firm presents questions from Perry’s South American followers about the status of preservation in the USA.

Washington moves his forces from Canada to NJ, the Declaration of Independence is written, Washington escapes the battle of Long Island, the battle of Trenton and 1777 a year of hardship.

This episode extrapolates on the resolves and convention s that lead to propulsion of Washington into the position of commander in chief. Also the episode takes us into the first shots which lead to the beginning of the American revolution.

This episode takes us to Mount Vernon examining plantation and manufacturing life, marriage to Martha and understanding Washington the wealthy landowner.

This episode takes us from George Washington’s early beginnings filled with stories and anecdotes of his childhood and his early education. Additionally, how he obtained a certificate as a land surveyor and how he began living in Mount Vernon.

This episode contains the view of Clinton’s intelligence services, major Andre, Benedict Arnold, and things of the Culper began to fall apart and Arnold going quiet.

General Washington had become very frustrated with the lack of performance of the ring, whether it be specific information or too much of a time lag for message delivery to be effective.

The episode of Culper’s spy ring continues, showing the limits of intelligence, secret writer, codes and the suspicion of Washington himself.