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//./
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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.
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