Thursday, September 19th, 2013 5:00-7:00pm 19 University Place, Great Room
For more information on this upcoming discussion about the intersections of museum practices and national politics, see the lecture poster.
Thursday, September 19th, 2013 5:00-7:00pm 19 University Place, Great Room
For more information on this upcoming discussion about the intersections of museum practices and national politics, see the lecture poster.
Peter:
I thought some of your public history students might be interested in this opportunity.
We were contacted to see if we knew anyone able to volunteer as a docent for the Hastings-on-Hudson Historical Society’s two-day house tour (May 22-23 from 12 noon to 5pm). The house in question is Margaret and William Sanger’s house which they lived in before she began her birth control crusade. Information about the tour is below:
http://hastingshistorical.org/housetour.shtml
If you are interested in participating please let me know as soon as possible. The docent does not need to be there for the entire duration of the tours, and it is an external tour of the house only.
We can provide some historical background for the tour to anyone who is interested in participating. It has at least one good story–it was designed and built by Bill Sanger, and the first night that the family stayed in the house it went on fire. Sanger’s autobiographies cover the incident, which you can read about here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=iy0oWya9H_kC&pg=PA61&dq=margaret+sanger+hastings-on-hudson&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
Cathy Moran Hajo, Ph.D.
Associate Editor/Assistant Director
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Department of History, New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-8666
(212) 995-4017 (fax)
cathy.hajo@nyu.edu
Visit our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger
Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html
Hello,
My name is Sarah Wassberg and I am currently enrolled in the Public History graduate program at SUNY Albany. I’m also working at Historic Huguenot Street in the Visitor Services Department.
With the support of the SUNY Albany Public History department as well as the Museum Association of New York, I have created an organization especially designed to serve the needs of young and new museum professionals in the state of New York. This organization currently only exists online at http://youngmuseumprofessionalsny.ning.com, but in the future will include an annual meeting and conference. The website is a social networking site that includes space for each member to have a profile, post on discussion forums, create and join groups, post pictures, videos, and chat. It is free to join.
My hope is that young professionals will network, start up branch chapters in their locales, and in general just get to know each other and learn from each other.
We are trying to reach as many young museum professionals as possible. The more members we have, the better we can share and learn from each other. If you could please share the news of this new organization with your contacts, I would greatly appreciate it.
Though the focus of the site is young professionals, all are welcome to join, especially those interested in helping to educate and mentor young professionals.
If you have any questions about the organization or would like to be otherwise involved, please let me know.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Sarah Wassberg
sewassbe@gmail.com
sarah@huguenotstreet.org
701-793-5764
Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html
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