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] -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet