Proceedings of the 2011 ALHFAM Conference and Annual Meeting, Vol. 34

Growing Living History In Good Times & Bad ~~ Weston, West Virginia

 

 

 

Preface: Growing Living History in Good Times & Bad

Keynote: The Storytelling Advantage, Adam Booth.

Growing Living History with Agricultural History

Finding the Pitchfork in the Haystack:

Adding Agricultural History to Your Local History Story, Lynne Belluscio

Designing a Research Plan to Incorporate Agricultural History into Your Local Story, Debra A. Reid

Growing Living History with Collections

Photographs Preservation and Digitization Basics, Lori Hostuttler

Good Times and Bad at the Vaughan Homestead in Hallowell, Maine, Jane Radcliffe and Ron Kley

Growing Living History with Foodways

A Hot Topic: Wood-fired Bake Ovens - A Sharing Experience, Regina D. Albert

Food Safety and the Relevance to Historic Sites, Regina D. Albert

The Triumphs and Tribulations of Fee Based Cooking Programs, Ryan Beckman, Kathleen Wall, Justin Squizzero, Gwen Miner, Pat McMillion

A Personal Recollection of Canning and Preserving, Susan Cain

“And nevermore you’ll toil…” Moonshine in Good Times and Bad, Clarissa Dillon

The Frontier Table: What Foodways Really Were in Western Virginia Before the Civil War, Martha and Richard Hartley

Canning: A Domestic Chore or Community Development Project, Debra A. Reid

Growing Living History with Hands-On Activities and Programming

Exploration of Eighteenth Century Dyes, Karen Clancy

The Best Original Ideas Are Always Borrowed From Somebody Else; The Success of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village’s Children’s Pioneer Fun Day, Arnold Grandt

Rope and Knots, Ronald Westphal

Growing Living History with Historical Research

Thomas Chapman: Colonial Farmer Turned Soldier, Michael Baker

Searching for Amelia Simmons: Hot Leads and Dead Ends in My Search for the Author of the First American Cookbook, Pamela Cooley

Growing Living History with Interpretation

Taking a Balanced Approach to Interpretation: Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial as a Case Study, Mike Capps

They Weren’t Always at War: Finding and Presenting the Human Drama in Every Day Life, Joey Madia

Some Things are too Important to Ever Forget: Interpreting the Impact of Coal Mining (Anthracite and Bituminous) on America’s History, Richard N. Pawling

Autobiography of a Dust Bowl Refugee, Susan Reckseidler

The Sites Homestead – Engaging Six Senses in Historic Interpretation, Kaila St. Louis

Growing Living History with Livestock

Assessing and Assuring Animal Welfare using Critical Control Points: A Guide for Living History Farms, Barbara Corson

Loved Too Much: Managing Visitor Perceptions of Livestock, Jon Keuster

Precious Cargo On Board: Driver’s License Needed? Pete Watson, Joyce Henry, Rhys Simmons, Fred Kiger

Growing Living History with Site Building and Rebuilding

Fort New Salem: Nowhere But Up, Becky Nesbitt

From Below the Ground Up:  Colonial Williamsburg’s Soil Building Effort, Wayne Randolph and Ed Schultz

Growing Living History with Staff and Volunteers

Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Historic Farmers, Charles LeCount

Many Hands Make Light Work. Integrating 4-H into the Museum Setting, Todd Price

Training and Using Youth Interpreters Effectively, Jo Ruggiero