Blog

At this time last year, Dallas Heritage Village was facing some pretty big challenges. We didn’t know what would happen with our city funding. Our budget was up in the air. Key staff were departing, and it was unclear when we would be able to replace them. There was turmoil and uncertainty, to say the least. And it’s not as if things instantly got better. We did receive a $70,000 cut in our city funding, after all sorts of political twists and turns. The weather has generally been terrible for just about every event, and Candlelight had its lowest attendance in years. We had more staff turnover. Our longtime curator, Evelyn Montgomery, discovered greener pastures and left in January. Also in January, Tuck, one of our beloved donkeys died. The Ambassad ..

We’ve all been very concerned about the ongoing deterioration of the Blum House. We’ve had many conversations as a staff, and we realized that Blum needed to close indefinitely, primarily out of concern for visitor safety. As this is a major operational decision, the Executive Board needed to be involved with the final decision. Upon our recommendation, the executive board voted last week to close Blum to the public indefinitely. For those that haven’t been out to DHV recently, a few of the issues with Blum include: · Rotting wood · Mold · Ongoing issues with fleas We hope that closing Blum will bring awareness to the deferred maintenance issues that plague not just our institution, b ..

Stephanie Land, our Rentals Manager, left us just a short time ago. We were sorry to see her go and she left a hole in our staff. A hole now being filled by Sydney Abdo, who has joined the tide of new administrative staff members at Dallas Heritage Village. Sydney has risen up through the ranks of DHV to reach her current position. She was promoted from being a highly energetic and hard working History Host, who was always willing to step into a roll to get a job done. Now she steps into the role of Rentals Manager, let’s learn a little more about Sydney… What first got you interested in working in nonprofits/museums? Hmm, great question … I started with the Junior Historians here at Dallas Heritage Village in 2010…? I  ..