Dear Mary
The Leelanau Museum produced an exhibit on One Rooms Schools several years
ago (1995?). The research was based much on 26 oral histories collected
from teachers and students. It was divided in to sections: Intro, The
Schoolhouse, The Classroom, Students, Teachers and Reflections. I excerpted
the oral histories as text to illustrate the points I wanted to make
(learned from the histories themselves) and used wonderful large B/W
portraits of the interveiwee as the primary illustrations. It was powerful
to see those wonderful faces telling their stories. I also had a corner
with a mock classroom. It was more of a panel display thatn object based
exhibit, but was dramatic.
Be happy to supply more details if you wish.
Laura
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Laura J. Quackenbush, Curator
Leelanau Historical Museum
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>From: Mary Sheila McMahon <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Exhibits on Education?
>Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2001, 4:58 PM
>
> I've been asked to curate an exhibit about education for a small,
> community-based history museum in Northern California. A few years ago, the
> museum did an exhibit about its one-room schoolhouses, so something a bit
> different is required. I've been doing oral history interviews with former
> teachers and students, and I think that I will be concentrating on the period
> between the end of World War II and the beginning of state involvement in
> local education (roughly 1945-1965).
>
> I am interested in knowing whether anyone has curated an exhibit on education
> and if so, how you have translated a rather "bookish" subject into material
> and visual terms (such as lunch boxes, classroom visuals, film strips,
> desks). If possible, I'd like to get a flavor of the very transitional
> quality of the period: the degree to which this community was at the same
> time agricultural and very focused on local issues, and yet at the same time
> was having to build new schools every year to accommodate the surge of
> subdivisions (with attendant Baby Boom kids) and was having to deal with more
> and more regulation and supervision from state and even national ideas about
> education.
>
> Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
>
> Mary Sheila McMahon
>
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