There is still time to register! Symposium: November 17, 2006 /Inventing Out Past: What, How, and Why We Remember/ Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Connecticut Registration Form: http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/PDF/Symposium06.pdf Myths pervade our culture and influence perceptions. As museum professionals, educators, archivists, and curators, our work has served to both perpetuate and dispel those myths. Join us for a day of thoughtful reflection and discussion about how memory and myth are created, shaped, and eventually altered. Communities turn to anniversaries as reason to celebrate everything from the founding of a town to the night a famous person slept there. A longing to connect with the past drives a continued interest in memory. Scholars are increasingly studying not only our past, but the changing ways in which we remember it. This symposium will explore that interest, and present varied perspectives on memory. The day will begin with an examination of the role of archives in shaping memory by keynote speaker Randall Jimerson. Subsequent talks will take participants from the Revolutionary War to the colonial revival, from the antiques show to the museum gallery, to learn about memory from the varied viewpoints of curators, professors, educators, and historians. The day will end with a reception and special tour of The Tale of the Horse: Spinning Litchfield’s Revolutionary Stories at the Litchfield History Museum. Schedule: 8:30 Coffee and Registration at St. Michael’s Church House 8:45 Welcome and Introduction 9:00 Randall Jimerson: Keynote Address: /Archives and Memory/ Randall Jimerson is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate Program in Archives and Records Management, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington. He is a Fellow and past President of the Society of American Archivists. 10:00 Tom Denenberg: /Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old //America/// Thomas Denenberg is Chief Curator of the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine. While Curator of Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, he published /Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old //America//./ / / 11:00 Briann Greenfield:/ From Heirlooms to Aesthetic Objects: The American Antiques Market and the Construction of a National Heritage/ Briann Greenfield is Assistant Professor of American History and Public History Program Coordinator at Central Connecticut State University. She wrote her dissertation on public memory in Salem, Deerfield, Providence and the Smithsonian Institution. 11:45 Lunch 12:30 Margaret Piatt: /George Washington was Shorter Back Then: How Visitors Experience History/ Margaret Piatt has over over twenty years experience in museum interpretation and education. She spent eleven years in the Museum Education Department at Old Sturbridge Village working as a museum teacher, assistant director and associate director. She became an independent consultant in 1996. 1:30 Lynne Brickley: /Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and the Shaping of Litchfield’s Revolutionary Past/ Lynne Brickley received her Ed.D. from the Havard Graduate School of Education. Her dissertation, “Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy” laid the groundwork for the LHS’s exhibit /“To Ornament Their Minds”: Sarah Pierce’s //Litchfield// //Female// //Academy/. 2:30 Timothy Compeau: /Forgotten Villains and Invented Saints: The Social Memory of Loyalists in //Ontario// and //Connecticut/// Timothy Compeau is Curator of Gananoque Museum Collections in Gananoque, Canada. He has spent several years studying Joel Stone, a loyalist who fled Connecticut and became a celebrated citizen of Gananoque, the Canadian town he founded. 3:30 Reception at the Litchfield History Museum For additional information about speakers and their topics, please visit http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/PDF/Details.pdf For information about the Litchfield Historical Society, please visit http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org Sponsoring Organizations: The Litchfield Historical Society is a private nonprofit organization founded in 1856 to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of Litchfield, Connecticut. The Society operates the Litchfield History Museum, seven galleries of decorative and fine arts arranged to tell the community’s history; the Tapping Reeve House and Law School, the site of America’s first law school (1784-1833); and the Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library, which contains research and archival collections. The Litchfield Historical Society is accredited by the American Association of Museums. The Connecticut Humanities Council is an independent, publicly-supported foundation, established in 1973 as the state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Council’s Professional Development grants support conferences, seminars, workshops, publications and other opportunities for museum professionals and Connecticut historians to engage in critical dialogue about issues of scholarship, museum practices, and the interpretation of Connecticut heritage. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). 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