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Newsletter of the new Museum Association of New York
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Stronger Together!
What does consolidation mean for our members? More benefits!
As a past member of Museumwise or the Museum Association of New York, you enjoyed benefits specific to each organization. Now, as a member of the new Museum Association of New York, you may partake in all of our benefits!
For fifty years MANY and Museumwise have been connecting people in museums and historical organizations across NY - providing a full range of training, advocacy, networking & collaborative programs to support New York's museum field.
We invite you to take this opportunity to join your colleagues -
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Grants for Museum Advancement
The next round of 2013 Get Ready, Get Set and Go! grants will begin July 1st.
Updates for 2013:
*Get Set! grant - postmark deadline is July 1
*Go! grants - institutions may apply for grants of up to $500 to support travel and/or registration fees for single participants, $750 for multiple participants.
Visit our website for more information:
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MANY & Oncell Systems Announce Mobil Technology Partnership
A new mobile technology partnership is now in place between OnCell and the Museum Association of New York. MANY members will receive a 25% discount on OnCell's mobile tour services, including cell phone tours, mobile web tours, mobile surveys, mobile giving, smartphone Apps, and text messaging.
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Stronger Together - A Message from Board President, Rob Cassetti
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I am pleased to announce that the consolidation of Museumwise and the Museum Association of New York is now complete. A new board has been elected that represents a diverse cross-section of museums, and museum professionals, from across New York State. The board includes strong representation from our former organizations.
 Our first act was to agree on a name for our new, united organization. The vote was unanimous: we will be the Museum Association of New York.
The name is clear and describes who we are. The name also has remarkable equity and recognition at a state and national level. We don't need to spend money and time creating awareness for a new brand.
We did feel that we could do a better job of clarifying what we do by dividing our services into three simple categories. The names we have chosen for these categories describe our primary activities - and also reflect the strengths of our shared past:
- One Voice - advocacy and strategy
- Museumwise - training and resources
- Conversations - conferences and seminars
Our goal, moving forward, is to bring the spirit, vitality and individuality of our former organizations into a new, united organization. We will continue to meet your expectations with a full range of programs and services,big and small. We will evaluate how to better accomplish what we do and how we do it, to assure that we are effectively delivering the service and advocacy you need.
This is an exciting new chapter in our 60 year history. We have much work to do in the months ahead, including the implementation of a new, united website. Rest assured, our mission will remain constant: to serve you, to advocate for you, and to provide the tools you need to succeed. Together, working with you and serving you, we can all be stronger.
Please let us know how we are doing along the way.
On behalf of the board and staff, welcome to the new Museum Association of New York.
Rob Cassetti
President, Museum Association of New York
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A New Face at the MANY Office
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 We are pleased to announce the addition of Dana L. Krueger as Associate Director, Programs for the Museum Association of New York! Dana has a long history with Museumwise as she served on the Board of Directors since 2007. In this capacity, she was also a part of the consolidation effort and therefore understands and appreciates the new organization and all is has to offer. Dana has stepped down from her role on the Board to take the position. Some of her previous work includes roles as Registrar at the Emerson Gallery/Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College; Collections Manager at the Madison County Historical Society; after-school instructor at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts and The Old Forge Arts Center (now The View). Dana is also an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies at Syracuse University where she teaches Public Learning in Museums.
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 Thank you to all of our Board members who were asked to work overtime during the consolidation process in 2012. We truly appreciate all of your hard work!
On April 15, 2013 we said goodbye to the following members as they step down from the Board of Directors:
Michael Botwinick, Hudson River Museum; Christine Campeau, Adirondack Museum; Christopher Clarke, Historian and Consultant; Scot Medbury, Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Kristin A. Swain, Rockwell Museum of Western Art; and Sally Treanor, Consultant. Our thanks goes out to each of them for their dedication and passion in their time on the Board.
Also on the 15th, we welcomed in our 1st official Board of Directors for the new Museum Association of New York! We welcomed our returning and new members of the Board: Gonzalo Casals, El Museo del Barrio; Robert Cassetti (President), Corning Museum of Glass; Melissa Chiu, The Asia Society; Hillarie Logan-Dechene, The Wild Center; Rebecca Gideon, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pamela Green, Weeksville Heritage Center; Jennifer Haines, Genesee County Village & Museum; John Haworth, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center; Lenora Henson, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site; Steven Kern (Treasurer), Everson Museum of Art; Suzanne LeBlanc, Long Island Children's Museum; Beth Levinthal, Hofstra University Museum; Mark Mortenson, Buffalo Museum of Science; Michele Philips, Peebles Island Resource Center; Erin Richardson (Vice President), The Fenimore Art Museum/NYSHA and The Farmers' Museum; Bart Roselli, Seneca Park Zoo; Lauren Sodano (Secretary), The Strong; Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Cooperstown Graduate Program.
A special thank you goes out to John Haworth and Michele Philips as they step down from their roles as President and Vice President. Their leadership and ardor was crucial to the consolidation and keeping us on track!
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Albany
There will be a NYS Tourism Strategic Planning Session on Friday, May 17 at Destiny USA in Syracuse, NY. Pre-registration required.
Catherine spent a day at the Governor's Tourism Summit in Albany. There was much talk about the value of cross-sector regional collaboration; devising strategies to drive visitors "upstate"; and fostering dialogues with the various contributors to tourism to better understand one another's capacities, capabilities and expectations. New York's museums and heritage organizations are a key segment in the state's "cornucopia" of tourism assets!
We have defined a challenge for New York State's museum community to work together to clearly convey what the State's museums, heritage organizations, zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums do; your value and your impact. We applaud those who have taken the lead and invite others to take the initiative; welcome the invitation; and come to the table during regional and statewide discussions and planning sessions for educational initiatives, economic development and tourism initiatives. We want to be - and need to be - an active part of the educational, economic development, and tourism conversations taking place at every level in our state.
Read the press release outlining the launch of the Governor's $60m campaign to support tourism.
Record Support in Congress for Museum Funding
Museum champions in Congress are once again leading the effort to support funding for the Office of Museum Services (OMS) at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). In recent weeks, a record 95 Representatives and 24 Senators signed letters in support of robust funding for OMS. These letters are used to determine which programs have support within Congress and are influential when annual spending bills are being written.
In addition to in-person requests at Museums Advocacy Day, this effort was made possible by the nearly 2,000 contacts that legislators received from their constituents, urging them to sign on. Thank you to everyone who took action!
"With record support in the House and Senate for Office of Museum Services funding, museum advocates are building momentum in Congress," said Alliance President Ford W. Bell. "These legislators have stepped up publicly to support our cause, so it is absolutely critical that we let them know we're watching and we're grateful."
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Sign AAM's Pledge of Excellence!
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The Pledge of Excellence campaign is off to a great start! So far, 1,299 museums have signed the Pledge of Excellence. The collective goal is to get 2,000 museums nationwide to sign the Pledge by May 20. New York State currently has 74 museums.
Please help drive New York's numbers up by signing the Pledge on behalf of your museum and/or urging colleagues at other museums to do so.
The Pledge of Excellence is a one-step, no-cost way to show that your museum is committed to standards and best practices. It also sends a clear message to elected and government officials that museums and their staff are dedicated to their educational mission, serving their communities and meeting the highest professional standards.
This is the museum field'sPledge of Excellence-we can all use it for advocacy purposes and show that for a field that is not regulated, we are highly effective at self-regulation.
Sign the Pledge of Excellence now! Taking the Pledge is voluntary, free and available to all museums. The Pledge operates on the honor system. Contact Julie Hart at AAM with questions or for more information.
On May 20 at the AAM Annual Meeting, all participating museums will be announced. I hope we can include your institution!
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4th Annual Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICE)
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Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship for Museum Leaders: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
June 2-5, 2013
Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, in Mount Pleasant, N.Y.
The award-winning Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship is an immersion program for mid-career museum, preservation, historic site and other arts and culture professionals designed to introduce business applications and principles of entrepreneurial thinking with the goal of expanding vision and leadership skills.
Participants at the Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship are introduced to what today's entrepreneurial museum leaders are saying. Practice exercises teach creative idea generation and follow-through while entrepreneurial and problem solving skills are tested on case studies developed expressly for this Institute. Follow-up webinars keep participants connected with mentors and one another to help them become the change agents that 21st century museums demand
ICE is cosponsored by the Cooperstown Graduate Program, The Museum Association of
New York and the New York State Historical Association
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 2013 Path Through History New York State Museum Week
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I LOVE NEW YORK is excited to continue supporting the museum community throughout New York State through the promotion and celebration of the 2nd Annual New York State Museum Week
June 10-16, 2013 as part of Path Through History.
The I LOVE NY team is planning to initiate the following program elements to build public awareness of the commemoration of all of the wonderful museums spread throughout the state:
- Topic pages to share information about New York State Museum Week, as well as the specific museums that are participating and they deals/packages they are offering as part of the celebration;
- Press Releases, PR Events Radio & PSA Announcement (April 8- June 2 sent to over 200 stations across the state);
- Social Media support as well as E-Newsletters/E-blasts.
How You Can Participate in NYS Museum Week
- If you would like to be included as a participating museum we ask that a contact from the institution complete the registration form that can be accessed through this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YY8YTHD
Logo files and banner ads will be sent to you after registration has been completed. We are very hopeful that this year, like last year, will be a successful program helping to build the awareness of the amazing museums throughout the State of New York!
If you have any questions about the Survey Monkey registration, please contact Jamin Clemente at jclemente@esd.ny.gov and if you have any questions about the program please contact me at kbaquerizo@esd.ny.gov .
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2013 Museum Institute at Sagamore
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Save the Date for the 2013 Museum Institute at Sagamore - September 24-27th
The Institute is a reflective, intensive, four day retreat at Great Camp Sagamore in the Adirondacks that gives New York State museum professionals the opportunity to learn, reflect, and work with their colleagues from across the state.
The 2013 Museum Institute at Sagamore will take place September 24-27th. Acceptance to the Institute is by application only - applications will become available in early summer. For more information please visit: www.museumwise.org
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Member Kudos
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Congratulations to the following museums from your state that have been recently accepted into the Museum Assessment Program (MAP). These museums deserve to be commended for their commitment to standards and institutional growth. The museums will complete a self-study and then have a consultative site visit with a peer museum professional.
- Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, Community Engagement MAP Engagement
- Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum, North Tonawanda, Community Engagement MAP Engagement
- Louis Armstrong House Museum, Corona, Organizational MAP
- Museum of Motherhood, New York, Organizational MAP
- Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, Organizational MAP
- Seward House Museum, Auburn, Collections Stewardship MAP
- Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park, Canandaigua, Collections Stewardship MAP
- Tanglewood Nature Center and Museum, Elmira, Organizational MAP
- Yager Museum of Art and Culture, Oneonta, Organizational MAP
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Awards of Merit Winners
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Award of Merit Winner
Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution
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The Museum Association of New York recently announced the winners of its 2012 Awards of Merit. These awards are handed out annually by Museumwise: MANY to recognize outstanding work in the museum community, reward staff and volunteers, and provide encouragement for development of new and innovative projects. A total of 10 projects, ranging from exhibitions to educational programs, received recognition. Six of these received an Award of Merit, the highest honor, given to institutions or individuals whose projects represent outstanding contributions to the field and overall innovation and excellence. The remaining four projects received a Certificate of Commendation for excellence within the context of available means and regional standards. Awards nominations were submitted in December and reviewed by a panel of professionals who work in the museum field. This year's Awards were presented to winners during the luncheon of our Museums in Conversation annual conference, in Syracuse on April 15th.
The following projects received an Award of Merit:
- The Buffalo Zoo/Buffalo History Museum's Erie Canalway Connections Program
- Buffalo Zoo, Buffalo, NY
- Category: Innovation in Interpretation
- Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY
- Category: Innovation in Interpretation
- Honoring Stephanie Miller's 25th Anniversary for NYS Museum After School Program
- New York State Museum, Albany, NY
- Category: Engaging Communities
- Revolution on the Runway, RCHS Program
- Rensselaer County Historical Society, Troy, NY
- Category: Innovation in Interpretation
- Shaker Heritage Society, Albany, NY
- Category: Innovation in Interpretation
- Sensory Friendly Time Makes Museum Accessible to More
- The MOST - Milton, J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology, Syracuse, NY
- Category: Engaging Communities
The following projects received a Certificate of Commendation:
- Corning Museum of Glass Website
- Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
- Category: Innovation in Collection Access
- Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh, NY
- Category: Innovation in Leadership
- Teen Interpreter Program at The Farmers' Museum
- The Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown, NY
- Category: Innovation in Interpretation
- New Directions and Apron Strings
- Roberson Memorial Inc. (Roberson Museum and Science Center), Binghamton, NY
- Category: Innovation in Interpretation
Congratulations to all!
Do you have any questions about the Award of Merit program, eligibility, judging criteria or nomination procedures? Please contact Catherine Gilbert, Executive Director, at 800.895.1648 or by email at director@manyonline.org with any questions that you may have.
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Path Through History Website has Launched!
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 The Path Through History website is a tool which helps visitors plan day trips, weekend getaways or extended vacations that explore the history and culture that New York State has to offer. The website allows for visitors to search out, learn about and plan for trips to over 500 museums, galleries, historic sites and more throughout the state.
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2012 Annual Appeal
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 Thank You!!
We have raised $3,705 towards our 2012 Annual Appeal. Many thanks to our contributors.
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Online Courses
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 Our slate of Collections Care and Preservation Online courses provide basic, practical training at a low fee (starting at only $65!). These courses are designed for staff, volunteers, board members, or interns at small to mid-sized museums, historical societies, libraries and archives. Courses can be taken at your own pace, with 2-3 hours of work time per week to be completed at your convenience. The courses also offer interaction with qualified instructors and assigments are based on your own collections. This fall we will be offering Collections Management 101 and Care and Handling of Costumes and Textiles.
For more information or to register for fall 2013 courses, visit our website
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Documentary Heritage Program
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 Free online course registration to South Central DHP constituents
New and for a limited time only: Staff, board and volunteers for organizations in the following counties in NY will have the registration fee waived as a service to the South Central regional constituents of the Documentary Heritage Program: Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, and Yates. These courses are made possible in part with funds from the Documentary Heritage Program of the New York State Archives, a program of the New York State Education Department. For more information & to register please visit our website: www.manyonline.org
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New York Council for the Humanities Disaster Recovery Workshop and Webinar
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 June 19, 2013 Disaster Recovery Workshop
More than six months have passed since Superstorm Sandy, and we realize that many Hurricane Recovery grantees and other organizations are still recovering. In an effort to help these recovery sites, The New York Council for the Humanities is holding a resources and networking workshop in NYC on Wednesday June 19, 2013 from 2:30pm-4:30pm. At this event, any organization recovering from Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene or Tropical Storm Lee is invited to attend. The two hour event will include time for networking, Council grants and programs that are and information about ditional funding sources still available.
We hope you can join in and learn about the many ways the Council and other funders can still help affected organizations.
Planning Programs After Sandy: Learn More at the Net Webinar
Has your community been hit by Superstorm Sandy, and you're looking to reflect on that experience through a humanities public program? Are you in the planning phase for a humanities program and need some help? Consider applying for a Planning Grant for up to $1,500 to covering costs such as convening your committee members, conducting focus groups in your community, or other expenses related to preliminary program research & development.
To learn more, please join the New York Council for the Humanities for a 45 min presentation followed by 15 min Q&A on the following dates:
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Join your colleagues at the New York Archives Conference (NYAC) 2013 annual meetingat LIU Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY on Wednesday, June 5 through Friday, June 7, 2013.
This year's conference will be a joint meeting with the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan NY, Inc., (ART) and will be co-sponsored by the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at LIU Post Campus.
The conference program will include a day of workshops, a speed mentoring session, a plenary address by Jason Kucsma of the Metropolitan New York Library Council, concurrent sessions on a full range of archival topics, roundtables, a Thursday evening reception, a Friday luncheon featuring speaker Karen Falk of the Jim Henson Company Archives, and Friday afternoon tours to local archives, gardens, and historic sites.
Participants can choose to follow one of the subject tracks (digital archives and electronic records, new and small institutions, outreach, special subject archives, or a special series of workshops and sessions designed for students and new professionals) or they can select from an al a carte menu of diverse subjects such as digital preservation, web archiving, archivists and activism, performing arts archives, institutional anniversaries, social media, or censorship. A Society of American Archivists' Digital Archives Specialist Certificate Workshop,Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Digital Archives, kicks of the conference on Wednesday.
On-campus housing is available, and the conference is reachable via public transportation.
Conference fees are as follows: Full Conference-$65, Thursday only-$55, Friday only-$35, Full day workshop $20, Half day workshops-$15, Friday luncheon-$16; Lodging: Single room/night-$60, Double room/night-$50.
Additional information, including the detailed program, conference sponsors, and professional development grant applications, is available on the NYAC website: www.nyarchivists.org. Online registration will be coming soon to the NYAC website. Questions concerning the conference can be sent to: Kristine Boniello, NYAC Co-Chair, boniellk@dowling.edu.
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Nomenclature 3.0-We Name Names!
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Have you checked out Nomenclature 3.0? Nomenclature is a hierarchically organized list of object terms for museums that's been an industry standard since 1978. The newest version is better than ever with over 5,000 new terms and a revised and enlarged hierarchical structure. Join the online community athttp://aaslhcommunity.org/nomenclature. There you can watch a tutorial about the revision, ask questions, and propose new terms.
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Asian Lacquer International Symposium, SUNY Buffalo State
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The Asian Lacquer International Symposium will be held on the campus of SUNY Buffalo State in Buffalo, New York, May 20-24 2013. This weeklong symposium will bring together international lacquer experts from multiple disciplines, including artists, art historians, conservators, curators, and scientists, to gain a holistic view of the many facets of Asian lacquerware. The symposium will:
* highlight lacquer as a living art;
* feature historical examples of lacquerware by region and culture;
* explore technical aspects of the craft through history;
* discuss cultural differences in conservation approaches;
* provide a venue for dissemination of recent scientific findings.
Distinguished guests with extensive lacquer experience from China, Japan, and Korea will make oral presentations and demonstrations.
The concomitant Asian lacquer exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center will express the idea that the past and present can be woven into the design process to create art that melds time-honored traditional techniques and materials with new processes, ideas, and changes in contemporary Asian society, thereby
showing that this traditional technique is a vibrant and evolving art form.
This conference is for artists, artisans, furniture designers, woodworkers, conservators, scientists, curators, collectors, students of these disciplines, and those curious about or interested in the wonders of Asian lacquer.
Those interested in attending are invited to read more about the symposium at
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Call for Presenters
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The NYS Education Department Office of Cultural Education will host
 a two-day conference in Albany, Uncommon Approaches to the Common Core, on August 13 and 14, 2013, aimed at school librarians, public librarians, academic librarians, public historians, and representatives from museums, archives, public television, NYS historic sites, and performing arts organizations. The purpose is to develop understanding of the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) with the goal to create common skills, a common base of information and common language so that conference participants will be able to effectively support teachers, students (including English-language learners and children with special needs), and parents.
The conference planning team is seeking proposals for breakout sessions on topics such as the following:
1 NOVELny: Integrating its resources into the Common Core classroom
2 CCLS-based lesson plans using cultural materials
3 Use of primary sources
4 Inquiry-based learning
5 Engaging students with cultural resources
6 Working with informational texts
We are especially interested in activities designed by collaborating cultural professionals, such as a librarian and a museum educator, or an archives specialist and a public television education specialist, working with teachers and students.
Break-out sessions will take place in the afternoon of August 13. Each will be 60 minutes long.
The deadline for proposals is May 23, 2013.
Presenters will be able to attend the conference at no charge. Reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed.
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34th Annual Conference on NY State History
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Early Bird Registration for the Conference on New York State History ends May 15th. Until that time the rate for the full conference is $90 or $70 for members of the New York State Historical Association, Archives Partnership Trust or Association of Public Historians of New York State. After that date the rate is: $115 or $95 for members of thethree organizations.
The Conference on New York History will be at the New York State Historical Association's Cooperstown campus this June 6-8. The Conference is annual meeting of academic and public historians, librarians, educators, publishers and independent historians coming together to discuss the latest research, publishing and programming on New York History. This is an exciting conference with many interesting and informative presentations. Highlights this year include:
● The keynote speaker, Walter Stahr, author of Seward : Lincoln's Indispensable Man, will be sharing his research on his definitive new biography of a great New Yorker of the 19th century.
● Presentations by seventy New York historians on topics as diverse as the Civil War Draft riots and the Rockefeller Drug Laws
● Research, archival and publishing panels with representatives from the New York Academy of History, the State Historic Preservation Office and the new editors of the New York History journal.
● A special performance of Fiddle Tunes of the North Country by John Kirk and Quickstep Music. The music for this performance is based on the rediscovered collection of sheet music and journals of Clarence Lockwood, a North Country performer who traveled throughout the North Country from 1896-1921.
● A Living History workshop of craftspeople from The Farmers' Museum's interpretive staff. The workshop includes hands-on components including blacksmithing, open hearth cooking, printing and other skills
Register for the full Conference before May 15th for $90 or $70 for members of the New York State Historical Association, Archives Partnership Trust or Association of Public Historians of New York State.
For more information go to the Conference on New York State History website
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Catherine Gilbert, Director
Museum Association of New York
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