Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Area
Annual Heritage Awards
Sponsored by
Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council
212 West Main Street, Suite 309
Salisbury, MD 21801
410-677-4706 office 410-677-4707 fax
www.lowershoreheritage.org
leshc1@aol.com
Deadline for Nominations: February 15, 2015
Categories Include:
Heritage Interpretation
Heritage Tourism Program or Event
Best New Heritage Initiative
Tee O’Connor Heritage Professional Award
Legacy Award
Heritage Award
Heritage Interpreter of the Year
The Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council wishes to recognize exemplary individuals,
organizations, exhibits, programs, and products that contribute significantly
to the community by interpreting, promoting, preserving, researching
and/or supporting our historical legacy.
The awards will be presented in a ceremony at the Annual Meeting April 29, 2015.
Nomination Categories & Guidelines
1) Choose a category. 2) Include completed Nomination form plus a statement of 500
words or less about why your nominee should be recognized. 3) Attach appropriate
supporting materials specified by category. Self -nominations are also accepted.
All nominations will be reviewed by a Nominations Committee and the winners will
be notified in advance of the Annual Meeting.
Categories:
◆Heritage Interpreter of the Year: This award recognizes a heritage interpreter-docent, educator,
tour guide, volunteer-in a non-profit or for-profit heritage organization, who provides outstanding, factual,
and educational information to the public. Only one person from each heritage site or organization may be
nominated in this category.
◆Heritage Interpretation: This award recognizes outstanding heritage interpretation or a heritage
tourism product and is awarded to the sponsoring organization. Eligible products include exhibits, self
guided or guided tours, videos/tapes, interpretive brochures, publications and websites. Samples (or
images if appropriate) of the nominated product must accompany the nomination.
◆Heritage Tourism Program/Event: This award recognizes an outstanding heritage event (annual,
special or ongoing), lecture series, or other type of program that makes local heritage come alive; it does
not necessarily take place at a historic site, but must have taken place within the past three years. A
heritage program/event informs, educates, and/or celebrates some aspect of local heritage.
◆Best New Heritage Initiative: This award recognizes programs, events or products that represent
new initiatives achieved in the last year by an individual or organization that educate the public by
expanding understanding of, or access to, the area's rich heritage. The award will be made to the
sponsoring organization.
◆Tee O’Connor Heritage Professional Award: This award recognizes an individual- author,
archaeologist, architect, exhibits/publications designer, historian, landscape designer, preservationist,
professional staff person, or researcher-for significant contributions to enhancement of local history and/or
heritage tourism.
Nominees may reside outside the heritage area but the work must take place within and contribute to the
heritage area. Supporting documentation for this award category should include a curriculum
vitae/resume, a book, an article, or other appropriate work sample.
◆Legacy Award: This award recognizes an individual or group who continues or preserves a
traditional craft or livelihood-a craftsperson, waterman, farmer, quilter, musician, boat builder, etc.
Nominees may reside outside the heritage area, but the work must take place within and contribute to the
heritage area.
◆Heritage Award: This award recognizes an individual or organization for significant and long lasting
contributions to the community by interpreting, preserving, promoting, researching, and/or supporting
local history and heritage. Nominees may reside outside the heritage area, but the work must take place
within and contribute to the heritage area.
Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council
Annual Heritage Awards Nomination Form
Deadline: February 15, 2015
Nomination Category: _________________________________________________________
Name of Nominee:____________________________________________________________________
Nominee Organization (if applicable):
_________________________________________________________________________
Nominee Address:_________________________________City:_______________Zip:________
Nominee Phone:_________________________ Email:___________________________
Person Nominating: ________________________________________________________
Business, Organization or Foundation:________________________________________
Address:_____________________________________City:_______________Zip:__________
Phone:___________________________ Email:________________________________________
Nomination Statement (500 words or less):