{"id":1710,"date":"2021-03-30T13:48:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2021-03-30T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:48:54","slug":"disaster-in-texas-dallas-historical-society-and-the-hall-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/disaster-in-texas-dallas-historical-society-and-the-hall-of-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster in Texas: Dallas Historical Society and the Hall of State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The unexpected cold temperatures in Texas last month caused a number of hardships to many. One institution severely impacted was the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallashistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Historical Society<\/a>. The pipes in their iconic building, the recently refurbished Hall of State, burst, causing major damage to the historic interiors and many of their archive and object collections. Please take a moment to watch the following video to learn more about their situation, and if you can, give to their <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallashistory.org\/support\/storm-relief-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Damage Relief Fund<\/a>. Thanks to COSTEP MA Executive Board Member Elizabeth Morse for sharing this video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hall of State Redux\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/517673047?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"712\" height=\"401\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/517673047\">Hall of State Redux<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/markbirnbaum\">Mark Birnbaum Productions<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after this winter storm hit Texas, COSTEP MA Exec Board members reached out to offer words of support to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/txcera.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TX-CERA (Texas Collections Emergency Resource Alliance)<\/a>, a group of volunteers that support disaster planning and response for cultural heritage institutions. Like COSTEP MA, they are an affiliate of the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation&#8217;s (FAIC) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.culturalheritage.org\/resources\/emergencies\/alliance-for-response\" target=\"_blank\">Alliance for Response (AFR)<\/a>. We shared a conference zoom call discussing the challenges and opportunities we respectively and collectively see in enhancing and supporting disaster planning and response for cultural heritage collections. Hopefully more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unexpected cold temperatures in Texas last month caused a number of hardships to many. One institution severely impacted was the Dallas Historical Society. The pipes in their iconic building, the recently refurbished Hall of State, burst, causing major damage to the historic interiors and many of their archive and object collections. Please take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/disaster-in-texas-dallas-historical-society-and-the-hall-of-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disaster in Texas: Dallas Historical Society and the Hall of State<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/costepma\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}