INTRODUCTION
PHASE ONE:
DOCUMENT PRESERVATION

PHASE TWO:
BUILDING PRESERVATION

OUR PEOPLE
LITERARY CAMPAIGN
TECHNICAL TEAM REPORT
OCTOBER 2005

Pictured left to right:
Mold and water damage; Board member Jenny Phillips and Tom Herman in the Finca; rear exterior view; Hemingway beloved boat, Pilar.

Advisory Committee
(see below)

Technical Team
(see below)

2007 Board of Directors

President and Treasurer

Jenny Phillips, Ph.D.
Anthropologist, psychotherapist, and writer
Concord, MA

Directors

Byron Gilchrest
Preservation Architect, Boston MA

Vicki Huddleston
Former Principle Officer, United States Interest Section, Havana, Cuba

Consuelo Isaacson
Healthcare Consultant, Cambridge, MA

Philip W. Johnston
Healthcare and Government Relations Consultant, Cambridge, MA

Martin L. Peterson
Special Assistant to the President, University of Idaho, Boise, ID

Jorge Sanchez
Landscape Architect, Sanchez and Maddux, Palm Beach, FL

Joel Schwartz
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA

Sandra Spanier, Ph.D
Professor of English, The Pennsylvania State University, and General Editor of the Complete Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, State College, PA

Bob Vila
Builder / TV Host, New York, NY

Staff

Mary-Jo Adams
Executive Director

Tom Herman
Legal Consultant and Board Secretary

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2007 Advisory Committee

Chair

James P. McGovern
U. S. Congressman, Massachusetts

Advisory Committee

Chester Atkins
ADS Ventures, Boston, MA

Russell Banks
Author; President, International Parliament of Writers, New York, NY

David Black
Author, New York, NY

Jimmy Buffett
Entertainer

Leland Cott
Adjunct Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Bruner/Cott & Associates Architects, Cambridge, MA

Peter Emerson
Resident Scholar, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Author and Historian, Concord, MA

Richard Goodwin
Author; former U. S. Presidential Advisor, Concord, MA

Dana Hewson
Clark Senior Curator for Watercraft, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT

A.E. Hotchner
Author, New York

Lisa McGovern
Health Care Advocate

Julia Moe
Art Consultant, Washington, DC

Richard Moe
President, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC

Henry Moss
Bruner/Cott & Associates Architects, Cambridge, MA

Stephen Rivers
Communication and Public Policy Consultant, Los Angeles, CA

Alan Solomont
Board Member, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, MA

Micho Spring
Chairman, Weber Shandwick New England

Rene Villarreal
Finca Vigía Major Domo, retired, NJ

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U.S. Technical Team

The members of the United States technical team participating
in the preservation of  Finca Vigia are:

Project Director:

Mary-Jo Adams
Executive Director of the Finca Vigia Foundation, , Boston MA

Co-Leaders:

Leland Cott
Senior principal partner Bruner/Cott & Associates, , Cambridge MA

William A. Dupont
Chief Architect of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, , Washington, DC.  

Consulting experts:

Mary Werner DeNadai
Principal of John Milner Architects, Chadds Ford, PA

Michael Henry
Watson Henry & Associates, Bridgeton NJ

Dana Hewson
Clark Senior Curator for Watercraft, Mystic Seaport, Mystic CT

Wendy Jessup
Wendy Jessup & Associates, Arlington, VA

Henry Moss
Bruner/Cott & Associates, Cambridge MA

Patricia O'Donnell
Heritage Landscapes, Charlotte, VT

Robert Silman
Robert Silman & Associates, Washington, DC

Bob Vila
Bob Vila Enterprises, New York, NY

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