The Regional Council of Historical Agencies, located in upstate New
York,
is presenting a series of five workshops, "Interpreting Historic
Houses."
The goal of the workshops is to bring museum directors, curators and
educators together with historians to explore new ways to present
historic
houses.  Sessions, presenters and locations include:  Monday,
September
22, The Founders:  How and Why, Patricia West, author of a forthcoming
Smithsonian Institute book on the development of historic houses at
Historic Cherry Hill, Albany NY; Monday, September 29, The Light of
the
Home, historian Harvey Green of Northeastern University, at Lorenzo
State
Historic Site, Cazenovia, NY; Tuesday, October 7, Women's Rights and
Roles
in Upstate New York, Kathryn Kish Sklar, SUNY Binghamton and well-
known
author, John Johnson Farm, Geneva, NY; Monday, October 20, Children
and
Family, Caroline Sloat, American Antiquarian Society at the David
Sayre
House, Milford, NY and Monday, November 3, Masculine/Feminine, Mark
Carnes, Barnard College at the 1890 House Cortland.

The workshops have modest fees (non-RCHA member is $30 including
lunch)
with discounts for attending more than one) and are made possible, in
part, by support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Preregistration is required.  For more information, contact:

Linda Norris or Pam Washburn
Regional Council of Historical Agencies
PO Box 28
Cooperstown, NY 13326
1-800-895-1648
e-mail:  [log in to unmask]


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