Group Honors Preservationist

Danae Peckler of the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, right, presents the Alvey Education award to Dick Klehm, left, and Cristina Turdean, center. (Rebecca Cunningham )

Cristina Turdean, director of the Center for Historic Preservation, received Historic Fredericksburg Foundation’s highest honor in March for contributions to the city’s historic preservation.

Turdean shares the Edward D. Alvey Jr. Education Award with Fredericksburg Masonic Lodge No. 4. Turdean, her students, and lodge officials have worked together for more than six years to catalog the lodge’s historic artifacts and collections.