This is a free one day conference.  The only fee would be for lunch.  We
decided to do a conference on kitchens following the restoration of the
circa 1925 kitchen and pantry at Eleutherian Mills Residence, the home of
Louise du Pont Crowninshield.

Debra Hughes
Curator of Collections and Exhibits
Hagley Museum and Library



KITCHENS: DESIGN, TECHNOLOGIES, AND WORK

Hagley Museum and Library Soda House, Friday, November 10, 2000


        9:00-10:00      Keynote address, Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University

        10:00-10:15     Break

        10:15-12:15     Panel I: Ideology and Technology

                                Mary Anne Beecher, University of Oregon
                        "Inside the Kitchen Cabinet: Manufactured Storage,
                        1900-1950"

                        Amy Bix, Iowa State University
                        "Equipped for Life: College Home Economics Programs
                        and Household Appliances, 1920-1980"

                        Shelley Nickles, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution
                        "Kitchen Appliance Design and Class Identity in
                        Postwar America"

                        Commentator:  Robert Friedel (University of Maryland)

        12:15-1:30      Lunch

        1:30-4:00       Panel II: Indoors & Out

                        Elizabeth Cromley, Northeastern University
                        "Kitchen Frontiers"

                        Sarah Leavitt, University of Colorado Heritage Center
                        "The Most Influential House of 1953: The Command
                        Post Kitchen and American Domestic Advice"

                        Anthony Rubano, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
                        "The Suburban Barbecue: An American Icon"

                        Abigail A. Van Slyck, Connecticut College
                        "The Girl Scout and the Buddy Burner: Cooking for
                        Fun at American Summer Camps"

                        Commentator: Ellen Lupton (Maryland Institute
                        College of Art and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design
                        Museum)

        4:00-6:00       Reception

        4:30-5:30       Tours of historic 1920s kitchen, Eleutherian Mills,
                        Hagley Museum and Library


For registration info, please contact Carol Ressler Lockman, Hagley Center,
email:  [log in to unmask]

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