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11) Also from the Arts Alliance:
Other Interesting Heritage-Related Programs
a) Ways of the Woods: People & Land in the Northern
Forest
b) Exploring Sense of Place Through Art
c) Fall & Winter Programs at
Your Society or Museum
d)
Check Out Our Historic Northern NH Web Pages
e) Introducing Our New Director of Programs
12)
Pontine Presents PARLORS OF PORTSMOUTH, Sunday 15 October
13) Seeking Sample Job Descriptions
14) Mariposa Museum Invites Gallery
Submissions
15)
Education Open House at Peterborough Historical
Society
16)
Berlin & Coos County Tap Consulting Agency
17)
Norton Presentation to Maine Archives & Museums
18) NEDCC Offers High-Quality Digital Imaging Services for Special
Collections Materials
19) iMarc Offers Web
Design
11) Also from
the Arts Alliance: Other Interesting Heritage-Related
Programs
a) Ways
of the Woods: People & Land in the Northern Forest
Explore the
culture and heritage of the Northern Forest at two northern NH
locations:
Northern
Forest Heritage Park in Berlin (752-7202)
October 16, noon to 6 pm;
October 17, 9 am to 6 pm; and October 18, 9 am
to 2 pm.
Plymouth
State University
October 20-22 (with traditional musicians
Jeff Warner and Patrick Ross),
Green Street, across from the Plymouth Senior Center.
Hours of admission in Plymouth are Friday and Saturday, 10 am
to 6 pm & Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm
Ways of the Woods is the Northern Forest Center's
interactive experience that is housed
in an 18-wheel
truck (Ed. Note: I love it!!) so that
it can travel to people throughout the Northern Forest. Exhibits are both
inside the 18-wheel tractor-trailer and under an attached tent. Inside the
trailer: Rings of Time, an interactive exhibit that combines historic
and contemporary photos and film footage with traditional music and spoken word.
There are also flat-screen video stations that play profiles of people who live,
work and play in the Northern Forest, and exhibit cases that display items
handmade in the region using native Northern Forest products.
Under the attached tent: kiosks that
explain key themes in Northern Forest history, industry, adventure, conservation
and recreation. Artifacts include: logger's spiked books, vintage skis and
ski boots, and a backpack fire pump used to fight forest fires in the 1930s.
b) Exploring Sense of Place
Through Art
Artist talks and group discussions with visiting
eco-artist Ann Rosenthal will take place
Thursday, October 26, at Plymouth State
University;
Friday, October 27 in
Colebrook; and
Saturday, October 28 in
Berlin.
In addition to being a professional artist, Ann
Rosenthal works with communities to re-imagine their forgotten waterways as
sites of common experience, history and activity. Her work is situated
within the field of "eco-art," which focuses on the physical, biological,
cultural, political and historical aspects of ecological systems to creatively
propose new possibilities for co-existence, sustainability, and healing.
These programs, made possible by Plymouth State University, should be
fascinating. Check with the Arts Alliance of Northern NH for more
details.
c) Fall &
Winter Programs at Your Society or Museum
Please email us at
info@aannh.org (mailto:info@aannh.org)
to let us know about your northern NH organization's
fall and winter
programs so that we can include them in our web and email calendars. You
should tell us the
date, time, location, and name of each program, and
include a brief description. Call with any questions at
323-7302.
d) Check Out Our Historic
Northern NH Web Pages
If you haven't yet visited the History and
Heritage section of our web site, we urge you to do so, and let us
know what you think. Click:
www.aannh.org/heritage (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cpwx9ybab.0.twvxswbab.g5vgzlbab.457&ts=S0207&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aannh.org%2Fheritage) to check it out. It's an ongoing process and we
welcome your help in adding materials. You can call us at
323-7302 or email us at info@aannh.org
(mailto:info@aannh.org)
with comments, corrections, and suggestions. We encourage you to let
others know about the site, as well. We'd like to hear about
articles, references, tours, and whatever else you think belongs
there.
e)
Introducing Our New Director of Programs
We're thrilled to
introduce our new Director of Programs and Member Services,
Cynthia Robinson, and to tell you that Kelly Bryer is
continuing to work with us as our webmaster. Cynthia will be calling many
of you to talk about the map & guide survey, to check on your needs, tell
you about upcoming program possibilities, and discuss other work we can do
together. Feel free to call her as well, at
253-3880.
12) Pontine Presents PARLORS OF PORTSMOUTH,
Sunday 15 October
On a
crisp autumn afternoon, there was a glimpse inside a diverse group of historic
Portsmouth homes as six gracious homeowners and two inns welcomed the public
into their "best room" for the PARLORS OF PORTSMOUTH. This self-guided
tour is a benefit for one of Portsmouth's longest running theater
companies, Pontine Theatre.
This
was the second annual PARLORS OF PORTSMOUTH tour. The event features
a variety of 19th and 20th century homes, with decors ranging from formal to
eclectic; traditional to contemporary. Tourgoers learn a bit of history
about each property as they follow the map and visit at their leisure. The
homes, which are within walking distance of one another, are arrayed on Miller
and Richards Avenues, and Broad, Court, Rockland and State Streets; and will be
decorated with floral arrangements donated by Ambrosia Gardens, Box Gardens,
Flowers by Leslie, and Portsmouth Flower and Gardens. The PARLORS OF
PORTSMOUTH is underwritten by a generous contribution from Portsmouth Quality
Flooring.
All of
the proceeds from the annual event support the artistic and educational programs
of Pontine Theatre. A Portsmouth institution since 1977, Pontine Theatre
presents performances and classes at the West End Studio Theatre in Portsmouth,
and tours throughout New England, presenting programs for the general public,
public schools, colleges, and retirement communities. Known for its unique
stagings of original plays on historical subjects of regional
interest, the company is currently preparing a new production based on
Wallace Nutting and the Colonial Revival Movement, which will premiere in April
2007 at W.E.S.T.
For more information on the PARLORS OF PORTSMOUTH tour and
Pontine Theatre, please call (603) 436-6660, email info@pontine.org
Mark your calendars for next year's event!
13)
Seeking Sample Job Descriptions
Do any Societies have job descriptions you
can--and would be willing to--share? Newport is trying to get their
Society re-invigorated and they have asked about job descriptions for
curator & executive officers.
If so, your choices for sharing are:
electronically to
Newport, in care of Mary Lou McGuire <maryloumcguire@hotmail.com>
by mail to Newport (Newport
Historical Society; POB 838; Newport, NH 03773-0838)
(Ed. Note: As a matter of fact, I would
like to see sample job descriptions posted at our website, along with sample
mission statements, and sample policies & procedures (including, for
example, accession & deaccession procedures, loan policies, and so
forth). If there are any hardy--or is that "hearty"?--souls reading who
would like to undertake such a collection, I suspect we could make a page
available on our website...)
14) Mariposa
Museum Invites Gallery Submissions
"Hail the Child!" is our December gallery
theme, celebrating birth customs across cultures for the Nativity. The
multi-media show accepts pieces to be juried by e-mail or by photographs,
including size, artist, media, year.
Please print this
invitation for submissions.
~Linda
Marsella; mariposamu@hotmail.com
15) Education Open House at Peterborough Historical
Society
The Peterborough Historical Society recently
hosted a two-day open house featuring the education programs, resources,
and opportunities available year-round to the Monadnock region community. The Historical Society has been offering
local history programs to the region for over 30 years. These educational offerings have grown
to include on-site programs held in the Societys historic buildings, classroom
visits by our education coordinator, family activities like the Discovery
Backpacks and History Hunters Letterboxing, and topic kits that can be borrowed
by teachers or families on topics ranging from historic quilts to the Hurricane
of 1938.
Visitors to the open house received a passport to guide them
throughout the Societys Peterborough Museum, Phoenix Mill House, and District
#8 Schoolhouse. At each stop there
were learning activities to sample and a staff person or education volunteer to
describe and demonstrate our programs.
Visitors also saw a sampling of the primary resources available in
the Society extensive archive collection. At the end of the tour,
participants received a goodie bag full of ideas, information, and materials on
sharing local history with young
people.
Tours were approximately 45 minutes. Admission was free and light
refreshments were served.
http://www.peterboroughhistory.org; 603 924-3235.
16) Berlin
& Coos County Tap Consulting Agency:
(Ed. Note: I recently wrote to the good
people at Berlin & Coos County Historical Society regarding something I had
read that piqued my interest. Here is my note to them--in blue, followed
by their response--in black. Thank-you for sharing!)
I see that the Berlin & Coos
County Historical Society has used the INLOOK consulting agency for file
management. Would you share a little about that experience for us--for
me to put in the e-mail newsletter?
One of my dreams is for NH's
historical societies to all have our catalogues on-line in the same database
so we can conduct research using each other's archives and collections.
I wonder if your experience with INLOOK will give me insight in one possible
way to achieve that...
But, whatever you used them for,
there may be other societies looking for similar help, and your experience
will be helpful to them. For example, what led you to them? What
project was accomplished by them? How much did it cost? How long
did it take? Do you recommend them to others?
I believe INLOOK is a husband-wife team
based in Hampton, NH. If so, I went to a class/seminar at the Tech
College on preservaton and storage. Frumie (of the Arts Alliance
of Northern NH) handed out forms for us to fill out to apply for
INLOOK. It was a guarantee as there was enough money to cover whoever
wanted a consultation.
INLOOK came up for a day [two?] to look over our
facility top to bottom. A few months later we received a manila
envelope full of ideas and recommendations for storage and
preservation. Examples:
- place humidity and temperature monitors on every
floor of the museum, inside every display case if we can.
- Cover the windows with UV protection.
- Dehumidifier in the basement.
- They also drew several ideas for better use of
our storage room, with different floor plans to maximize
space.
They are very pleasant people. Highly
recommend them.
~Jacklyn Nadeau; Berlin & Coos County Historical
Society
(Ed. Note: The following three
submissions are tantamount to advertisements. The Association has not
received any money for any of these articles, nor have we requested any.
Nor, I hasten to add, does the Association imply endorsement of these
organizations by their inclusion here. In their defense, the existence of
this newsletter implies solicitation of articles of interest for our
constituents, the historical society community. I have included the
articles because the information or services may be of use to some of our
readers. I welcome your feedback on this type of submission, which is
increasing now that we have a presence on the web.)
17) Norton
Presentation to Maine Archives & Museums:
"I welcome the opportunity afforded me by Maine
Archives & Museums to present myself to fellow members. I originally
became interested in museums and historical sites when I was courting my wife.
(We have been married 43 years, have three adult children and seven grand
children.) During school breaks she was a docent at The Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow House in Cambridge Massachusetts where my father- in- law, Frank
Buda, was the curator for fifty years.
"I have been in the insurance business for thirty
years, (I admit to thirty, but it could be longer). Ten of those years
were devoted to insurance relating to museums and historical sites. My
first museum client was the Museum of Afro American History on Beacon Hill in
Boston and Nantucket. (They are about to celebrate their 200th
anniversary). From that time on Museums were my thing!
"Each museum, historical site, has different
unique exposures. On summer weekends The Transportation Museum in
Brookline MA would have thousands of visitors for special car exhibits.
Initially I thought there would be a large number of liability claims.
There were none. We did have two claims for damage to antique vehicles
caused during unloading from car carriers. (Check your loan and
transit agreements for responsibility).
"The New England Historical Genealogical Society,
and their magnificent flag ship building located on Newbury Street, Boston, was
an interesting exercise in determining the proper building value. It was
also interesting in that their collection was comprised of mostly paper.
Just up the street was the Guild of Boston Artists. They did not own their
building and their collection consisted of Fine Arts on
Consignment.
"You can see that each museum has its own
specific needs. It is definitely not one-size-fits-all. There seems
to be a great deal of confusion and misinformation when it comes to
insurance. For this reason I am available to conduct
workshops for Museums & Historical Sites.
"Common questions during my workshops
include:
- How do I value my building for insurance
purpose?
- Do I need a complete inventory of my collection
to insure it?
- What is your valuation clause?
- Do I need Directors & Officers
Liability?
- Do I need consignment agreements?
- Do I need transit agreements?
- What does a claims adjuster look for when
settling a claim?
- What is my Society's most valuable
asset?
- How do we determine its replacement value
for insurance purposes?
- Do we have/need a "current & complete
schedule"?
- Do we have/need consignment & transit
agreements?
- If we could insure only one item, what would it
be?
- What if the Society should suffer a total
loss?
- Are our Volunteers covered under my liability
policy?
- Do we have/need Directors' & Officers'
liability?
- Do we have/need workers' compensation
coverage?
- Is the "defense cost" outside our limit of
liability?
- Will my insurance company defend us or do we
need to get our own attorney?
~Dick Norton, Ogunquit
Insurance; P.O. Box #1407; Ogunquit, ME 03907
(207) 646-9009;
Fax (207)646-1119
Do you have valuable,
fragile, or oversize collections materials to digitize?
18) NEDCC OFFERS HIGH-QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGING SERVICES
FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MATERIALS
THE NORTHEAST DOCUMENT
CONSERVATION CENTER (NEDCC) has expanded its Digital Imaging Services to include
high-quality digitization of historic photographs and visual materials with no
size limitations.
NEDCC CAN
DIGITIZE:
Photographic prints, film negatives, lantern slides, glass-plate
negatives, film slides, documents, works of art on paper, scrapbooks,
illustrations in bound volumes, fragile / rare bound volumes, atlases, wall
maps,
architectural plans, two-dimensional objects such as textiles, and
other visual materials.
A FEW FEATURES OF NEDCC'S
EXPANDED DIGITIAL IMAGING SERVICES:
NEDCC's Sinar camera system captures RAW
files sizes of up to 500 MB. Derivatives such as TIFF or JPEG are created
from RAW files. Built-in software ensures even illumination over the entire
object, eliminating hot spots. Distortion-free images are produced using lenses
made especially for two-dimensional objects. Oversized objects can be digitized
on a horizontal surface, reducing the risks posed by hanging delicate objects.
Long-lasting ink jet prints can be created, using archival inks on acid-free
paper in a variety of finishes.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
COLLABORATION BETWEEN NEDCC'S CONSERVATION AND IMAGING
SERVICES:
Conservation treatment, digitization, and traditional reformatting
of original materials are performed here at the same facility, minimizing the
risks of transporting fragile objects. NEDCC's staff has years of
experience in the careful handling of valuable historic materials; its facility
provides sophisticated security and climate controls. NEDCC is a national leader
in training on digital preservation and can offer advice on building sustainable
digital collections and planning grant projects.
~Victoria Ellis, Director of Imaging Services: 978/470-1010
ext. 227; vellis@nedcc.org or
David
Joyall, Technical Photographer: 978/470-1010 ext. 237; davidj@nedcc.org
The
NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER is one of the largest non-profit,
regional conservation centers in the Unites States, specializing in preservation
of paper-based materials for libraries, museums, archives, and other
collections-holding institutions.
NEDCC; 100 Brickstone Square; Andover, MA 01810;
978/470.1010; http://www.nedcc.org
19) iMarc
Offers Web Design
iMarc specializes in dynamic web
design and corporate intranet applications which, in many cases, can simply be
added on to enhance your existing site.
For reference, we
recently completed a re-design for Springfield Museums which is getting great
reviews from members and staff. I am also including a link to our overview
which lists a sample of additional clients and products.
http://www.springfieldmuseums.org http://www.imarc.net/portfolioWe can schedule a brief call for interested parties,
to help determine if we would be a good fit for future projects. We can
also offer a demo (via internet) which will give you an inside look at the
applications we
created for similar organizations. Thanks for
considering iMarc and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
~Kim Jackson;
Business Development; iMarc; kim@imarc.net;
978-462-8848
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