 He is on the Board of Trustees (as secretary) and serves as program chair of the Daisy Wilson Artist Community, named for Wilson's mother, which is restoring August Wilson House at 1727 Bedford Ave. in Pittsburgh's Hill District, where Wilson lived his first 12 years and where his American Century Cycle of 10 plays can be said to have begun.Since 2001 Rawson has produced "Off the Record", an annual musical theater satire of Pittsburgh news and newsmakers which raises funds for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and other charities.In 1999, he wrote "Where Stone Walls Meet the Sea", a 600-page centennial history of the Donald Ross-designed Sakonnet Golf Club in Little Compton, Rhode Island and of the summer colony of which it is a part.