The Providence Preservation Society has hired a new executive director, Charles Brent Runyon, who will begin work in his new post on Nov. 11.
Runyon has been the executive director since 2005 of a nonprofit historic preservation organization in Georgia, Thomasville Landmarks Inc. He replaces James Brayton Hall, the society’s former director who left Providence in March to become deputy director of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. He will take over from the Society’s interim executive director, Karen L. Jessup, a local preservationist and former Society board member who took the reins after Hall’s departure.

Longer Journal article: Georgia preservationist to take top job at Providence Preservation Society.