Membership Information

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        To remain creative and effective in preserving, educating about and advocating for our incomparable historical record, we need your membership, your financial support, and your voice. We are an all-volunteer organization and have no requirements for membership beyond an interest in history and our heritage.

Here's what our membership has helped us do this past year:

• Sponsor an audio documentary and traveling exhibit on the Great Textbook War (1974) which has been awarded broadcasting’s oldest & most prestigious prize, the Peabody Award.
• Establish an Internet Web site www.KVHPS.org
• Bring public attention to the historic value of the 1946 Quarrier Diner and the nine other historically valuable structures on our 2010 Threatened List.
• Place a commemorative marker at the site of the 1915 Charleston High School/ Thomas Jefferson Jr. High School building.
• Participate with the Preservation Alliance of WV in a successful Legislative Luncheon promoting historical preservation.
• Participate in a professional assessment and the advancement of the preservation of the 1884 Whipple Bridge over the Elk River.
• Work on a full-color Historic Downtown Charleston tour guide; lead an Historic Homes tour for FestivALL.

Here's what you get:

• A quarterly newsletter Up and Down the Valley and a Web site with current information on historical matters.
• Invitations to all Society functions.
• A voice in and influence on the activities the state’s largest non-genealogical historical advocacy group.

----- Please use the printable application to join –----

There’s obviously much to do and we need all the help we can get.
Add to our effectiveness by passing an application on to a like-minded supporter.
None of our actions would be possible without the support of our membership.