Historic Deerfield, a museum of New England history and art, announces the
2000 Summer Fellowship Program in Early American History and Material
Culture.  Between six and ten college students will spend nine weeks in
western Massachusetts studying early American history and experiencing the
inner workings of a museum.

Successful applicants will be awarded a $7500 fellowship which covers
tuition, books, field trip expenses, room, and board for nine weeks.  A
limited number of awards to offset lost summer income - ranging from $500
to $1500 - will be awarded to students of exceptional promise and with
demonstrated financial need.

The settings for classes range from eighteenth-century houses to the
state-of-the-art Flynt Center of Early New England Life, which opened in
1998.  Fellows participate in seminar sessions, learn to give guided tours
in three of Historic Deerfield's museum houses, and conduct original
research using the document, printed, and artifactual collections of
Historic Deerfield and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.  They
also visit other museums in New England, including Old Sturbridge Village,
Plimoth Plantation, and the Yale University Art Gallery, and, in the final
week of the program, Colonial Williamsburg and the Winterthur Museum.  At
each stop the Fellows meet with museum staff members for in-depth
presentations and discussions about the museum, its collections, and its
interpretive philosophy.

An official application form must be supported by official college
transcripts, at least two letters of recommendation from college faculty
members, a brief essay (200-300 words) discussing how the applicant's
academic experiences and other interests have prepared them for the
program, and a non-refundable application fee of $15.

Academic credit is available through the History Department of the
University of Massachusetts.

The application deadline is March 1, 2000.

In short, the Summer Fellowship Program is a museum internship and an
academic program.

More information is available at www.deerfield-fellowship.org or call
Kenneth Hafertepe at 413-775-7209. For more information about Historic
Deerfield, visit www.historic-deerfield.org

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