Donnamarie Barnes - “Preserving Memory and Place”

Donnamarie Barnes presented “Preserving Memory and Place: Telling the Stories of Three Cultures on the East End of Long Island” as part of the 2022 Nantucket Preservation Symposium, on June 23, 2022.

Donnamarie Barnes, Director of History & Heritage and curator/archivist at Sylvester Manor in Shelter Island, NY, has spent over thirty years working in the editorial photography field as a Photo Editor for publications such as People Magazine and Essence and as a Photo Librarian and Editor at the Gamma Liaison photo agency. She curated a highly acclaimed historic tintype photography exhibition in 2015 at the Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor.

The 2022 Nantucket Preservation Symposium was a conference organized by Nantucket Preservation Trust, in partnership with the Preservation Institute Nantucket, with underwriting support from the Community Foundation for Nantucket's ReMain Nantucket Fund.