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Chairperson: Ron Carnegie

Goals:

• To provide a support network for practitioners of first-person interpretation.
• To promote high standards of quality for first-person interpretation.
• To provide a clearinghouse for techniques, advice, employment opportunities, and resources.
• To meet as an ALHFAM PIG and conduct pre-conference workshops or sponsor sessions at Annual and Regional ALHFAM meetings, as well as independent First-Person retreats.
• To organize a network of independent contractors and museums so both types of agencies can locate appropriate talent for their projects.

Methods:

• The committee disseminates its lists, guidelines, and resources via the ALHFAM Web Page (www.alhfam.org), electronic mail, regular mail, and the ALHFAM Bulletin.

Current Activities:

• We are compiling a list of sites which present first-person programs regularly. This will be posted as soon as it is available

Resources:

• Past into Present: Effective Techniques for First-Person Historical Interpreters. University of North Carolina Press, 1998. by ALHFAM member Stacy Roth.
• Three page summary of 1997 ALHFAM pre-conference workshop, The Freelance Interpreter: Issues, Audiences, Marketing & More. 1997 ALHFAM Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol. XX, Pages 255-257.
• ALHFAM Proceedings especially Vol. XXII, 1999 FPIPN pre-conference workshop papers, pages 70-75,112-14, 121-124.
• Papers from 2000 will be available when published.

If you are a member of ALHFAM and would like to join FPIPN (we pronounce it "pippin," like the apple; the "F" is silent), please send your name, address, institutional affiliation (if any), telephone number, email address, and a short description of your first-person interests to Ron Carnegie.

If you would like to join the FPIPN Yahoo Discussion Group the link is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FPIPN/

For any whom may be interested, the first person pig now has its own FB page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/422918094401737/   Feel free to come on by if you are so inclined.

Please feel free to send personal and site literature for referrals. Also, please indicate if you would like to take an active role in the FPIPN as part of our working committee. We pride ourselves that participation is open to all who wish to take an active part in the work of the committee. Though we are far apart in terms of distance, we find ways to spread the work. If you would like more information on ALHFAM offerings, publications, and membership, visit About Us

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Winter 2012 George Chapman Memorial Retreat
Friday March 30– Sunday April 1, 2012
Dover, Delaware
Hosted by The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs

March 30 through April 1 saw the return of FPIPN's biannual George Chapman first Person Retreat in Dover Delaware.  Hosted by the State of Delaware's Historic Museums, both in the John Dickinson house and the charming State House and First State Historic Park.

Things began somewhat unofficially on Friday with many attendees visiting the State archives.  That evening was a social in the State House which provided time fro the nearly 50 participants to socialize and meet.  The rest of the weekend was filled with some very interesting sessions and performances with first Person interpretation being the main topic.

Saturday Night was capped by a dinner of Delaware specialties such as Pretzel salad at the Air Mobility Museum at Dover Air Force Base.   One of my favorite sights at that occasion was a room full of 18^th  and 19^th century folk milling around inside the Air Traffic Control tower!

Thanks go to Vertie  and Gloria of Delaware  for all their work as hosts to the retreat and Kimberly Costa who was the Retreat Chair and driving force behind the whole thing.  Kudos to you for a very successful retreat!

Ron Carnegie

 

To see more information on the retreat and the Program Brochure Click Here.