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Proceedings of the 2005 ALHFAM Conference (Vol. 28)

Farm Fresh: Keeping Museums Fresh in the Twenty-First Century
Living History Farms, Des Moines, IA

 

 

Preface – Living History Farms, 2005 Conference Chair, Leo E. Landis

Keynote Address
Agricultural History: What is it Good For?, David Danbom

Keeping Museums Fresh in the Twenty-First Century

• Making Memory: Open Air Museums as a Tool to Build Collective Memory, Debra A. Reid

• Old Sturbridge Village: From Re-created Historic Village to History Learning Center, Tom Kelleher
• Keeping Colonial Williamsburg Fresh: Ideas Based on Recent Visitation Research, Wayne Randolph
• Your Audience is Fresh. Are Your Exhibits Stale?, Mary Seelhorst
• Interpreting Something New: The History of Conservation and Reforestation in Michigan in the Twentieth Century
  • A Plan to Develop New Exhibits and Interpretive Programs at the Historic Higgins Lake Nursery at North Higgins Lake State Park, Rob Burg
  • Environmental History Programs at Chippewa Nature Center, Kyle Bagnall
• Reinterpreting a “Log Cabin”:
  • We Can Make a Difference: Gentle Activism in Interpretation, Carrie Fellows
  • Crafting an Interpretation Plan for Wixson Road Cabin: Gentle Activism in Interpretation, Katie Boardman
• So, you want to be an Administrator?: Notes from a Roundtable Discussion, Mike Beckett and Derrick Birdsall

Keeping Museum Programming (and Museum Interpreters) Fresh

 

• Living History and Museum Education: Technology Integration and Outcomes Based Learning, Ted D. R. Green
• Nineteenth Century Hygiene, or, Dirty or Not: Standards of Cleanliness, 1800-1906, Melissa Shoffner and Merrilee Garner
• Short People Got No Reason to Live in the Nineteenth Century, Janis Falk
• Distance Learning at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Maria Velez
• Torts, Tarts and Pies: Baking Through the Centuries, Susan McLellan Plaisted
• Issues of Meat Preservation:
  • Nineteenth Century Meat Preservation, Ross W. Jabaay
  • Wood, Stones, Bricks and Smoke – Then and Now, Sylvia Fraser

Farm Fresh Knowledge: The History of Agriculture & Rural Life in the Twenty-First Century

• Horse Head Brasses and Peaked Collars: European Influences on North American Draft Horse Harness, Bob Powell
• The Historic Genome Project: The Search for a Historical Consciousness, Jonathan D. Kuester
• Food Will Win The War: Victory Gardens from World War I to the Present, Rebecca Lamb
• Sources on Twentieth Century Agriculture and Rural Life, Debra A. Reid

Freshening Collections Care

• Planning for the New Chenhall!
  • Chenhall at the Crossroads: Revising the Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, Ron Kley
  The Stuffed Owl-less Museum, Mick Woodcock
• Keeping your site fresh: Maintain your staff as well as your artifacts, or “Lots of polish, no spit,” Sarah Z. Bent
• Two Approaches to Compiling a Step-by-Step Guide for Adequate Care, Sarah Z. Bent

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