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elcome to Salt Lake City! We are delighted to have you join us for the annual meeting of the American Association for CROSSROADS: W State and Local History. Exploring Vibrant Connections The Local Host and Program Committees created a terrific Between People and Place meeting experience for you, including speakers, sessions, tours, an outstanding exhibit hall, and evening events that are the perfect combination of fun and education. We are sure you will enjoy this first-rate professional development and networking opportunity, and hope you take part in as many events as possible. Your registration packet contains many important items. Be sure to look through it carefully for notices and program updates. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask one of the many volunteers contents working at the meeting. You can spot them by the ribbons they wear: Welcome from the Chairs ����������������������2 • Purple – Volunteer Staff Members Need to Know! ����������������������������������������3 • Maroon – AASLH Council Registration Desk Hours �����������������������3 • Cream – Host Committee Session Updates �������������������������������������3 • Pink – Program Committee Featured Speakers ����������������������������������4 Please take the time to thank our sponsors and exhibitors for their Annual Meeting Highlights �������������������5 role in making this meeting useful and affordable. These dedicated professionals are here to bring you products and services that will Schedule at a Glance ����������������������������6 help you in your important work. They also enable us to keep your Exhibit Hall Highlights and Maps �������8 registration fee the best deal in the country! Exhibitors �������������������������������������������������9 On behalf of AASLH and the dozens of volunteers who have worked so hard to bring you this event—have fun and remember that we Tours ������������������������������������������������������� 20 are here to make this meeting a special experience for you. Don’t Evening Events ������������������������������������� 23 ______hesitate to let us know how we can help. Pre-meeting Workshops Sincerely, Wednesday, October 3 ����������������������� 24 ______

Terry L. Davis Sessions and Program President and CEO Thursday, October 4 ���������������������������� 26 AASLH Friday, October 5 ��������������������������������� 31 Saturday, October 6 ��������������������������36 ______

Special Thanks and Sponsors ����������� 40 Steve Greewood Welcome to Salt Lake City!

he 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association for State and Local History will consider the sometimes empowering, sometimes challenging, but

always special connection between people and place. Inspired by Salt Lake City and guided by the theme; Crossroads: Exploring the Vibrant Connections Between People and Place, we hope this meeting will facilitate your discoveryT of the personal, communal, and organizational journeys that lead to vibrancy, authenticity, health, and happiness, and expand your understanding. of how these journeys support meaningful and impactful social change

While in Utah, we hope you take time to explore the many historical treasures in the historic history is glimpsed at state. Utah’s natural and American Gardens. Indian historyUtah’s isMormon on view at the new Utah Museum of History and at Red Butte Natural Temple Square, the LDS Church History Museum, and Brigham Young’s Beehive and Lion the Masonic houses. One can sense the early conflict between Mormon historic settlers mansions and federal and authority Museum. The magnificent at the Fort Douglas Military Temple introduce us to early mining barons, and a visit to the Park City Museum continues the story of mining in Utah. Also, for those interested in family history, the Family History Library is the world’s largest genealogy library, and the Division of State History and State Archives is just blocks away. evening events, selection of sessions, Meeting includes a great The 2012 AASLH Annual and tours that are packed with opportunities to learn, network, and enjoy. Be inspired

and energized by our keynote speaker, Pat Croce. Listen to plenary speaker Laurel Thatcher Ulrich who will speak about her recent study of nineteenth-century Mormon diaries, a project that returns her to her western roots. Make plans to attend the awards banquet to hear Utah historian and writer Will Bagley and honor the best in the field of state and local history. We hope that the AASLH 2012 Annual Meeting energizes you, expands your knowledge, helps you make connections between the present and the past, and allows you to discover resources for the work you do in the field of state and local history.

Sincerely,

Robert Voyles Scott M. Stroh, III Host Committee Co-Chair Program Chair Utah Museums Association Milwaukee County Historical Society

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1. Name badges must be worn at all times.

2. Only registered attendees will be allowed to attend sessions and workshops.

3. Nonregistered guests are not allowed to attend sessions or workshops but may purchase tickets to attend tours

and other special events. Please check with AASLH Sean Buckley registration desk for availability.

4. Your purchased tickets are located in your registration Sessions and Annual Meeting packet. Please check them for the appropriate meeting Evaluations times and locations for special events. Help us improve! Session evaluations are placed in each 5. Tickets are necessary for all workshops, labs, luncheons, meeting room. Please take a few minutes to complete the tours, and evening events. A ticket is not required for the form at the end of the session. An overall Annual Meeting membership luncheon on Friday. Please show your ticket evaluation will be emailed after the meeting. before boarding buses or entering an evening event. If you’d like to purchase tickets, please visit the AASLH registration desk. Some events may be sold out. Session Updates

SESSIONS ADDED AASLH Registration Desk • Educators and Interpreters Showcase Hours Thursday, October 4, 1:30–2:45 pm

The AASLH Annual Meeting registration desk is • Developing Coalitions among Small Museums located on the Upper Mezzanine at the Salt Palace Friday, October 5, 4–5:15 pm Convention Center. The desk will be staffed during the following times to answer any questions you may • Gems in the Rough: Mining Social Media for Local have during the meeting. History Information Saturday, October 6, 10:45 am–12 pm Tuesday, October 2 ������������������������������������ 3–5 pm SESSIONs CANCELLED Wednesday, October 3 ����������������������7 am–6 pm

Thursday, October 4 ��������������������������7 am–6 pm • The Civil War Cache Project: Mapping and Sharing Local Soldiers and Stories Friday, October 5 ��������������������������������7 am–5 pm Saturday, October 6, 10:45 am

Saturday, October 6 �����������������������8 am–12 pm • Synergistic Marketing in a Metropolitan Area Saturday, October 6, 10:45 am

Workshop changes

• Connecting to Visitors with Inspired Staff: Training Beehive Front-Line Staff and Volunteers will be held House Wednesday, October 3 from 1:30–5 pm. • Emergency Preparedness/Crisis Planning, Wednesday, October 3 has been cancelled.

• Nomenclature 3.0 for Users of PastPerfect 5, Wednesday, October 3 has been cancelled.

Gary L. Boatwright, Jr. Boatwright, L. Gary AASLH Annual Meeting Salt Lake City SLCVB/Adam Barker CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place 3 Featured Speakers Friday, October 5 2:30–3:45 pm

Thursday, October 4 10:45 am–12 pm

Friday, October 5 6:30–9:30 pm

Will Laurel Bagley Thatcher Banquet Ulrich Speaker Plenary Pat Croce KeyNote Pat Croce and Company; Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard University News Service; Laura Bayer

Laurel Thatcher Will Bagley, Awards Banquet Ulrich will deliver the plenary speaker, has written and edited Pat Croce, our keynote speaker, more than twenty books on overland graced the cover of Success magazine address in Salt Lake City. She grew up in the Rocky Mountain west, but has emigration, frontier violence, railroads, as the first person to ascend from mining, the creation of digital search the training room to the boardroom spent most of her adult life in New England. She is the author of many engines, and the Mormons. Born in of a professional sports team. His Utah, he attended Brigham Young remarkable success as a physical articles and books on early American history, including A Midwife’s Tale, University and was a President’s therapist and pioneer in the sports Scholar at the University of California medicine field to the colorful leader which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 and became the subject of at Santa Cruz, where he studied responsible for the resurrection of writing. Between 2000 and 2004, the the Philadelphia 76ers as an NBA a PBS documentary and an award- winning website, dohistory.org. She Sunday Salt Lake Tribune published championship contender has been more than 200 of his columns and defined as one of the most amazing has frequently consulted for museums and historical societies and during the articles. His work has received awards stories in sports history. He also has from many organizations including a deep interest in the field of history, last ten years has written and taught courses on the use of ordinary objects Western Writers of America, Western especially pirate history. Croce is History Association, and National the founder of the world-renowned as sources for history. Her 2001 book, The Age of Homespun, is organized Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure and he received the Merrill J. Mattes Museum. He is Chairman of Pat Croce around fourteen domestic items, including a linen tablecloth, two Indian Award for Excellence in Writing. & Company and a nationally known Mr. Bagley was a Wallace Stegner motivational speaker. baskets, and an unfinished stocking. Her recent work includes Well-behaved Centennial Fellow at the University Women Seldom Make History (Knopf of Utah and the Archibald Hannah 2007) and Tangible Things, a 2011 Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale exhibit of artworks and artifacts from University. He has appeared in more Harvard’s many collections. She is than two-dozen documentary films, now completing a study of nineteenth- notably Helen Whitney’s The Mormons century Mormon diaries, a project that on PBS’s American Experience. He returns her to her western roots and lives and works in Salt Lake City. provides the material for her plenary address. Professor Ulrich is past President of the American Historical Association and is currently 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University.

4 AASLH Annual Meeting Salt Lake City CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections Highlights Between People and Place

Sharing your Ideas and Networking Connect with us The Annual Meeting includes activities and networking especially for the field of 2012 Annual state and local history! In addition to sponsored sessions throughout the meeting, you’re invited to attend the following AASLH Affinity Group events to discuss the Meeting Blog latest issues, share ideas, and to be inspired: Get in the spirit of the conference by visiting the • Corporate History Museums and Archives • Military History 2012 Annual Meeting Blog. Tour on Wednesday and Lunch on Thursday Breakfast and Tour on Prepare for the conference Saturday with posts on the theme of • Court and Legal History crossroads and connections. Lunch on Friday • Small Museums Also, keep up with what is • Educators and Interpreters Luncheon and Small going on throughout the conference as attendees Breakfast Roundtable and Museums Day on Thursday provide a “man/woman on Educator’s Showcase on Thursday the ground” perspective of • Field Services Alliance • Presidential Sites and conference sessions and events. Meeting on Wednesday Libraries www.aaslhcommunity.org/ Roundtable on Saturday am2012 • Historic House Museums Breakfast on Friday • Religious History Breakfast on Saturday Twitter • Internet Digital Encyclopedia Alliance (I.D.E.A.) Share your comments about • Visitors’ Voices Roundtable on Saturday the conference on Twitter. Breakfast on Friday Use hashtag #AASLH2012.

Connecting to Collections Continuing Conversations Wednesday, October 3 Exchange 8:30 am Convene 9:30–10:45 am Building Regional Networks he 2012 AASLH Annual Meeting includes the second and final Connecting to Collections 11 am– Taking Disaster Planning TContinuing Conversation Exchange. AASLH 12:30 pm to the Next Level is pleased to welcome the participants in this Exchange to Salt Lake City. Through this project, the Texas State Library and Archives 12:30–1:45 pm Lunch with Poster Session Commission and its partners, including AASLH and Heritage Preservation, hope to add value to the Connecting to Collections Initiative, to expand the 1:45– Group Discussion on opportunities for continuing professional development for cultural heritage 2:45 pm C2C Statewide Project experts responsible for statewide collections care planning and education, Sustainability and to develop the resources needed for us all to be good citizens when it 3:30–5 pm Private tour of Church History comes to preserving our history. This project is made possible by a grant Library and Archives from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and its grant partners. 5:15–8 pm Dinner at Alta Club with Connecting to Collections Continuing Conversation Exchange Keynote Speaker, attendees will enjoy Wednesday evening’s keynote speaker, Eileen Hallet Stone Eileen Hallet Stone, a professional oral historian and award- winning author of over 200 articles on minority cultures, Thursday, October 4 environmental issues, family dynamics, life challenges, and 8:30–9:45 am C2C Statewide Planning Tools history. Collected stories in her book A Homeland in the West: You Can Use: The Sequel Utah Jews Remember were developed into a photo-documentary exhibit that was shown as part of the 2002 Winter Olympic Cultural Olympiad Arts Friday, October 5 Festival and traveled statewide. Her earlier book, Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah, co-authored with Leslie 8:30–9:45 am Boots on the Ground: C2C Kelen, added substantially to Utah’s educational curriculum. Hallet Stone Outreach Projects is a Public Square speaker for the Utah Humanities Council and writes a monthly Living History column for the Salt Lake Tribune.

5 AASLH Annual Meeting Salt Lake City Schedule at a Glance CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place Thursday 1:30–2:45 pm October 4 • AASLH, Your Guide Along the Career Path, Registration 7 am–6 pm Part I ����������������������������� Room: 355B • Beyond History: Expanding Your Education Tuesday 7–8 am Offerings ������������������������� Room: 155A • Tour: History and Faith: Historic Temple • Educators and Interpreters Showcase October 2 Square, Cost: $15 ����������������������������������� Room: 155E Registration 3–5 pm 8:30–9:45 am • Empowering Small Museums on • Educators and Interpreters Breakfast and Main Street, USA ��������������� Room: 155B Wednesday Roundtable, Cost: $30 ��������� Room: 255B • FSA Tips: Improving Your Online Presence October • Bad Boards, Bad Boards, What’cha Gonna ����������������������������������� Room: 355D 3 Do? Strategies for Fixing Poorly Functioning Registration 7 am–6 pm • History in 4D: Sharing Content on Museum Boards ����������������� Room: 355B Historypin ����������������������� Room: 255A 8 am–5 pm • Connecting to Collections: Tools You Can • Making Room for SHA ���������� Room: 355C Use—The Sequel! �������������� Room: 255A • Tour: Park City, Cost: $75 • Opportunities and Resources • Tour: Rails2Rockets: Utah’s Transportation • The Importance of a from IMLS ����������������������� Room: 355A Digital Strategy ������������������ Room: 155A Crossroads, Cost: $75 • Reproductions: How, When, and Where to 8:30 am–5 pm • New Crossroads at the Intersection of Use Them ����������������������� Room: 155D Public and Private �������������� Room: 355A • Best Practices for Slavery Interpretation, • What Do History Museums Really Need to • Passing the Torch of Leadership to a Cost: $75 ������������������������ Room: 257B Know About Their Visitors? ����� Room: 155C Younger Generation ������������� Room: 155D • Interpretive Exhibits: Telling Our Stories on 1:30–6:30 pm • Save Time with Effective Meetings a Shoestring, Cost: $75 ����������������������������������� Room: 355C • Tour: Three Billion Years of History on One �����������������Fort Douglas Military Museum Island, Cost: $30 • New Roles for Small Museums: Engaging • Small Museums, Big Impact! ��� Room: 355D 2:45–3:45 pm Community and Moving Toward Relevance • Thinking About Grad School? What, Where, Cost: $75 ������������������������ Room: 260B and How? ������������������������ Room: 155E • Afternoon Break ������������������ Exhibit Hall • The Rembrandt Rule Workshop • Twilight at Conner Prairie: The Creation, 4–5:15 pm Cost: $75 ��������������������������Room: 259 Betrayal, and Rescue of a Museum ����������������������������������� Room: 155C • AASLH, Your Guide Along the Career Path, 8:30 am–12:30 pm Part II ���������������������������� Room: 155C • When History Hits the Road: • Connecting Visitors to Your Site Mobile Museums ���������������� Room: 155B • At the Crossroads: A Conversation on Adult through Inspired Front-Line Staff, Learners ������������������������� Room: 155D Cost: $45 ������������������������ Room: 255C 8:30 am–12:30 pm • Canaries in Our Mine: Embezzlement at • StEPs Curriculum Train-the-Trainer • Tour: South Temple: Utah’s Millionaire Row History Organizations ����������� Room: 355C Cost: Free ������������������������ Room: 255B Cost: $30 • Corporations Connecting with Their 1:30–5 pm 9:45–10:45 am Community ���������������������� Room: 155B • Connecting Visitors with Inspired Staff: • Morning Refreshment Break ���� Exhibit Hall • Facilitating Conversations with Visitors Training Front Line Staff and Volunteers ����������������������������������� Room: 255B Cost: $45 ������������������������ Room: 255B • First Time Attendee Reception ���Room: 258 • Places of Note: Musical Venues as Windows • Inquiry-Based Learning and 21st-Century 10:45 am–12 pm on History ����������������������� Room: 355A Skills, Cost: $45 ���������������� Room: 255C • Keynote Address: Pat Croce ��� Room: 255D-F • Technology in History Institutions: • Field Services Alliance Meeting, Four Perspectives ��������������� Room: 355D 12–1:15 pm Cost: Free ����������������������������� Room: 258 • Corporate History Luncheon • Too Important to Fail: Historic House Museums Meet Community Needs 9 am–3 pm Cost: $35 ��������������������������Room: 258 ����������������������������������� Room: 255A • By Invitation Only: 2012 CEO Forum • Small Museums Luncheon • The Toolkit Talks: Collections Care Basics, Cost: $150/$220 for two from same Cost: $35 ������������������������ Room: 255B organization Advocacy, and Visitor Studies ���Room: 355B �����������Room: Radisson Hotel, Parleys 1–2 12–2:45 pm • Uncovering Local History with National 1–5 pm • Director’s Luncheon and Session History Day ���������������������� Room: 155A Cost: $40 ������������������������ Room: 255C • Corporate History Tour, Cost: $30 5:45–6:30 pm 2–4 pm • Reception: Developing History Leaders @ SHA, Cost: Free �������������������Room: 258 • To Dance, To Sing, To Live: A Cultural Tour Cost: $30 6:30–9 pm 6:30–9 pm • Evening Event: A Stroll Through Time: The Natural History Museum of Utah, Cost: $45 • Evening Event: Historic Capitol Hill, Cost: $45

6 Schedule at a Glance Friday Saturday October 5 October 6 Registration 7 am–6 pm Registration 8 am–12 pm 7–8:15 am • Reenactments: Solid Interpretation or 7:30–8:45 am Edu-tainment? ������������������ Room: 155B • Breakfast: Historic House Museums and • Breakfast: Military History and Religious Visitors’ Voices, Cost: $30 ������ Room: 255B • Re-imagining Historic Sites: Three Roads to History, Cost: $30 �����������������Room: 258 the Same Destination ����������� Room: 255A 8 am–5 pm 8:30 am–5 pm • The West: Where Women and the • Tour: Wendover and the Mysterious West Law Meet ������������������������ Room: 355A • Getting Things Done: The AASLH Project Desert, Cost: $75 Management for History Professionals • Your Turn: Answers about StEPs, MAP, and Program, Cost: $75 ���������������Room: 259 8:30–9:45 am CAP Assessment Programs ����� Room: 155D 9–10:15 am • Banish the Boring: Creating Great 12–1 pm Presentations �������������������� Room: 155C • A Measured Approach to Integrating • AASLH Membership and Networking Sustainability in History Organizations ���� Room: Exhibit Hall • Beyond Counting Visitors: Four Examples of Luncheon, Cost: Free ����������������������������������� Room: 155A Evaluation in History Museums ����������������������������������� Room: 155B 12–1:15 pm • Communities and Archives: Exploring New Uses for Old Records ����������� Room: 355D • Boots on the Ground: C2C Outreach • Court and Legal History Luncheon Projects �������������������������� Room: 255A Cost: $35 ������������������������ Room: 255B • From Sustenance to Relevance: 1–2 pm Reinterpreting Food, Place, and Local • Business Models and Earned Income for History ��������������������������� Room: 255D Historic Houses ����������������� Room: 355D • AASLH Meeting of the Membership ��������������������������������� Room: 255D-F • Growing Awareness and Creating Change: • Negotiated Spaces: The Commodification of Museums and the Disability Community Space and Role of Multiple Histories 2:15–3:30 pm ����������������������������������� Room: 155D ����������������������������������� Room: 355A • Plenary Address: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich • Localizing Difficult Histories ��� Room: 155C • NEH and Historical Organizations: ��������������������������������� Room: 255D-F Exploring Connections ���������� Room: 355B • Meshing Mission and Community: Identifying Strategies for Engagement ������ Room: 355B • People, Place, and What Matters in 3:30–4 pm Your Community ���������������� Room: 355C • Afternoon Break ������������������ Exhibit Hall • Secrets from the Lodge: Identifying and Demystifying Fraternal ��� Room: 155A • Taking History to the Streets 4–5:15 pm Objects �������������������������� Room: 355A • What Can We Do About Public • 2013 Annual Meeting Roundtable • Serious Play: Interpreting History for Misconceptions About Our Past? ����������������������������������� Room: 155E Young Audiences ���������������� Room: 255A ����������������������������������� Room: 155E • The Changing Web: The Future of the • Telling a Good Story ������������ Room: 355C • Yield to On-Coming Traffic: No Stopping (History) Website ���������������� Room: 355A Strollers and Small Feet �������� Room: 155D 10:15–10:45 am • Developing Coalitions Among 8:30 am–12:30 pm Small Museums ����������������� Room: 255C • Morning Break • Tour: Religious Intentions and Interactions: • Historic Places as Museums: Crossroads of 10:45 am–12 pm Architecture and City Planning, Cost: $30 Expectations ��������������������� Room: 155D • 21st-Century Roundtable for Museum 9:45–10:45 am • Lyres and Tires and Barns, Oh My! Using Professionals �������������������� Room: 255D Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Cataloging • Morning Refreshment Break ���� Exhibit Hall • Gems in the Rough: Mining Social Media for ����������������������������������� Room: 355B Local History Information, 10:45 am–12 pm • Reinventing Your Museum: New Audiences, Cost: $75 ������������������������ Room: 355A Great Expectations �������������� Room: 355D • African American Culture and Place-Making • Journey for Justice: Local History, Civil in a National Museum ���������� Room: 155A • Standing at the Crossroads of Diversity: Rights, and the Power of Place � Room: 155D Creating Pathways to Employment for Under- • Are Your Docents Dwindling, Dull, or Dying? • Integrating a National Institution with the represented Communities ��������Room: 155B We Can Help! �������������������� Room: 355C Local Community ��������������� Room: 355C • Visitors to Religious Sites: The Whos and • Context Is the Key: Exploring Meaning and • Long Term Sustainability Issues with Whys ����������������������������� Room: 255A Relevance at Sites of Tragedy ���Room: 355D Online Reference Works �������� Room: 255A • Wrestling with Issues of Change • Do History Museums Still Need Objects? • Paranormal Policies ������������� Room: 155A ����������������������������������� Room: 155E and Controversy ����������������� Room: 155A • Presidential Sites and • Marketing, Education, and Access: 6:30–9:30 pm Libraries Roundtable ������������ Room: 155C Perspectives on Web Resources • AASLH Leadership in History Awards ����������������������������������� Room: 355B 1–4:30 pm Banquet, Cost: $55 • Putting Meat on the Bones: Using Genealogy ���� Room: Radisson Hotel, Wasatch Ballroom • Putting Your Board to Work to Build a to Personalize History ������������Room: 155C Financially Sustainable Organization Cost: $45 ������������������������ Room: 355C 1–5 pm • Tour: Richest Hole on Earth: The Bingham Canyon Mine, Cost: $30

7 Exhibit Hall Schedule and Facility Layouts

Explore New Products and Services in the Exhibit Hall Salt Palace On Thursday and Friday, don’t miss your chance to meet Convention this year’s vendors and suppliers. The Exhibit Hall is your place to network and check out the latest technology Center and services. You can also visit the AASLH Career Center to find your next job or post a job opening with your The majority of the organization. Finally, check in at the office or post to annual meeting will Twitter or Facebook about the conference at the Email be held in the Salt Center and Cyber Café. Palace Convention Third Level Center. Refer to your Food, Drinks, and Networking onsite program for The Exhibit Hall features networking, food, and beverages event locations. during the Annual Meeting. Take a break and join us!

The meeting rooms Thursday, October 3 stack on top of 9 am Exhibit Hall Opens each other with the registration 9:45–10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break Second Level being 2:45–3:45 pm Afternoon Refreshment Break the main floor. 5:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closes

Friday, October 4 9 am Exhibit Hall Opens 9:45–10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break 12–1:15 pm Free Membership Luncheon 3:30 pm AASLH Book Signings and Break 4 pm Exhibit Hall Closes

Second Level Radisson Hotel

Wasatch Ballroom Exhibit Hall (Awards Banquet)

Pawleys 1 (CEO Forum)

First Level W est S out h T emple treet

Meet buses at the West South Temple Street Entrance by the Radisson Hotel

8 2012 exhibitor Guide

Company...... Booth Number Company...... Booth Number

AASLH Programs and Services ...... 4 and 5 Interpretive Graphics ...... 34 AltaMira ...... 54 and 55 Kavita-Painted Silks...... 51 American Alliance of Museums...... 27 Lamcraft, Inc...... 17 American Heritage...... 58 Learning Times,LLC...... 52 Ancestry.com...... 30 Making History Connections...... 56 Arcadia Publishing...... 1 MBA Design & Display Products Corp...... 31 Aurora Storage Products ...... 59 Minnesota Historical Society Press/Borealis Books. . . . . 20 Backstage Library Works...... 50 Minotaur Mazes ...... 53 Bear Wallow Books ...... 33 National Endowment for the Humanities...... 23 BiblioLabs ...... 15 NEH on the Road/Mid-America Arts Alliance...... 22 Brad Larson Media ...... 66 North Wind Picture Archives ...... 67 Characters Unlimited, Inc...... 12 Northeast Document Conservation Center...... 42 Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums...... 37 Northern Micrographics...... 43 Creative Company ...... 13 Northern States Conservation Center...... 49 The Creative Learning Factory...... 28 OnCell...... 32 The Donning Company Publishers ...... 40 PastPerfect Software...... 8 Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc...... 57 ResourceMate by Jaywil Software...... 48 Eduweb...... 36 Selago Design, Inc...... 64 Gaylord Bros...... 18 Tour-Mate Systems ...... 45 Hollinger Metal Edge, Inc...... 35 TourSphere, LLC...... 65 Institute of Museum and Library Services...... 26 University of Oklahoma—College of Liberal Studies. . . . .29

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Rails2Rockets: Utah’s in 1981 to create “an environment to foster independence, discovery, Wednesday, October 3 Transportation Crossroads 8 am–5 pm and new voices in American film.” Park City Cost: $75 Attendees will learn of its beginnings, holdings, and future plans. The tour 8 am–5 pm Utah has served as the crossroads will next travel to the University of Utah Cost: $75 of the West and a connection to the and examine the records of the Rocky Spend the day discovering Park City cosmos. The Transcontinental Railroad Mountain Power and the Kennecott and find out how two small museums was joined here and Space Shuttle Company housed at the modern have reinvented themselves to deal rockets were developed here. All facilities of the Marriott Library’s with seasonal tourism while staying Aboard, for this exciting tour that will Special Collection. Enjoy a behind-the- connected to the local community. take you from the driving of the Golden scenes view of its holdings, operations, First stop is the Utah Olympic Park. Spike to blast off of the Space Shuttle policies, and its interaction with its Visit the 2002 Olympic Museum, in the span of a single day. Be guided corporate clients. The tour is followed stand at the top of the K120 ski jump, through a century of railroad history by a reception. meet an Olympic athlete, and hear the at the Union Station Museum and the thrill in winning a medal. Next stop is Golden Spike National Historic Site and To Dance, To Sing, To Live: Historic Park City. Visit the National then talk to real rocket scientists about A Cultural Tour Register-listed Historic Main Street on their work while exploring ATK’s Rocket 2–4 pm a docent-led tour, explore the town’s Garden. Cost: $30 silver mining history at the Park City This walking tour of downtown Salt Museum, and go shopping in the Corporate History Tour Lake City will introduce the story of beautiful resort town. 1–5 pm Cost: $30 its founding and spotlight the people Join the AASLH Corporate History and places that reflect its cultural Affinity Group to investigate the heritage. The tour will spotlight the city’s first mansion, performance Utah is the only records of two corporate archives. The tour will first visit the archives centers including the Capitol Theater state whose capital’s of the nonprofit Sundance Institute and the Mormon Tabernacle, historic homes, important business and finance name is made of located in downtown Salt Lake City. Robert Redford and some friends structures, LDS Church buildings, and three words. and colleagues founded the Institute many more.

20 and Ray Luce, former state preservation officer, historian, and now volunteer , October 4 , October 5 Thursday Friday employee for the LDS Church Historic History and Faith: Historic Wendover and the Mysterious Sites Division. Temple Square West Desert 7–8 am 8 am–5 pm Cost: $15 Cost: $75 Saturday, October 6 Located in the heart of downtown Salt Spend a day investigating the mysteries Lake City, Temple Square is the most of the Great Salt Lake, Utah’s West Richest Hole on Earth: The visited site in the state of Utah. Join Desert, and the community of Bingham Canyon Mine colleagues for an early morning walk, Wendover. The tour begins at the 1–5 pm tour the historic buildings of the block, Great Salt Lake with a presentation Cost: $30 including the world-famous Tabernacle, on its historical and geological Spend Saturday afternoon examining home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, significance. The tour continues with Utah’s mining history and seeing a and learn of the story of the construction a visit to a National Historic Site, the working mine. This tour will visit two of the Salt Lake Temple. A quick visit to Benson Gristmill. Continue across community mining museums, the the Beehive House, the home of Brigham the West Desert viewing the remnants Bingham Canyon Mine, (the world’s Young, will conclude the tour. of the ancient Lake Bonneville to largest human excavation), the Wendover. Attendees will see Danger community of Copperton, a company South Temple: Utah’s Millionaire Cave, a cluster of dry caves that town for the miners of the Bingham Row contained archaeological remains Canyon mine, and the Bingham 8:30 am–12:30 pm dating more than 11,000 years ago. Cemetery. Cost: $30 Next, experience the Bonneville Named as one of the Best Streets in Speedway, the site of countless land America in 2009, South Temple has speed records. Enjoy lunch at a West been known as Utah’s first prominent Wendover casino followed by a tour The name “Utah” comes residential address. Beginning in 1855, of the World War II Wendover Airfield from the Native American merchandisers, mining magnates, where air crews trained to drop atomic and bankers started construction of bombs on Japan. Finally, the tour will “Ute” tribe and means architectural masterpieces on South return to West Wendover to spend time People of the Mountains. Temple to display their wealth including for a little gambling and shopping time. the Kearns Mansion, Walker Mansion, Downey Mansion, and Armstrong Religious Intentions and House. Enjoy a stroll up South Temple Interactions: Architecture and while touring several of these restored City Planning mansions within one of Utah’s earliest 8:30 am–12:30 pm historic districts and come away Cost: $30 knowing why South Temple is Utah’s This tour examines the interaction Millionaire’s Row. and reaction between Mormons, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Three Billion Years of History on and other faiths evidenced in One Island the religiously constructed 1:30–6:30 pm environment in Salt Lake City. Cost: $30 The tour will be led by three Situated in the middle of the remnants subject specialists in local of an ancient ocean, Antelope Island and American architecture and boasts three billion-year-old geologic preservation: Brad Westwood, formations, a unique salt water/ former Chair of Special freshwater ecosystem, world class Collections, Brigham Young bird-watching, one of the country’s University, and historian, largest bison herds, a historic ranch, Paul L. Anderson, and the longest continually occupied architect, exhibit designer, Euro-American residence in the state of and historian, Utah. Explore all these things and more in this afternoon tour.

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8:30 am–5 pm MA; Tricia Brooks, Manager of African Consultant, Salt Lake City, UT; Virginia American Initiatives, Colonial Williamsburg Catherall, Director of Public Programs/Curator Foundation, Williamsburg, VA; Conny of Education, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Best Practices for Slavery Graft, Principal, Conny Graft Research and Lake City, UT Interpretation Evaluation, Williamsburg, VA; Julie Rose, Director, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Cost: $75 Allen, LA New Roles for Small Museums: XX Room: 257B Engaging Community and Increase your capacity to create Interpretive Exhibits: Telling Our Moving Toward Relevance comprehensive and conscientious Cost: $75 interpretations of slavery. Learn tips Stories on a Shoestring XX Room: 260B for connecting to and extending Cost: $75 Designed for teams of board members, beyond your site’s complex history of XX Location: Fort Douglas Military directors, staff, and volunteers, explore slavery; training to help staff achieve a Museum the content in the new Small Museum greater understanding of the difficult Museums of any size can create Toolkit chapter, on “New Roles for knowledge and navigate surrounding inexpensive interpretive exhibits that Small Museums.” This interactive complicated emotions; and tools to excite, engage, and educate visitors. workshop covers forces for change, inventory current interpretations and This hands-on workshop geared to small what community engagement is, how to evaluate new techniques. history museums shows an integrated approach to telling the stories of who we should engage, guidelines Chair: Kristin Gallas, Director of Education and steps, case studies, evaluation, and Public History, The Tracing Center on collections and communities. Learn Histories and Legacies of Slavery, Watertown, how to research, design, and produce dialogue tools, and new roles. interpretive exhibits supported by best Chair: Candace Tangorra Matelic, Ph.D., practice educational strategies. President, CTM Professional Services, Santa Fe, NM AASLH Annu Chair: Megan van Frank, Historical and al Meeting Museum Programs, Utah Humanities Council, Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, UT; Laurel Casjens, Private CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections 24 Between People and Place 8:30 am–5 pm continued to attract and hire candidates that are tours and programs that put visitors’ connected to your site through personal needs and interests first. The Rembrandt Rule Workshop inspiration. Chair: Rebecca Martin, Volunteer and Tour Chair: Tanya Brock, Visitor Services Manager, Coordinator, National Archives and Records Cost: $75 Minnetrista, Muncie, IN; Callie Hawkins, Administration, Washington, DC; Mary Ann XX Room: 259 Curator of Education, President Lincoln’s Ruelas, Educator, Arizona Historical Society, Do you want to violate the Rembrandt Cottage, Washington, DC; Linnea Grim, Hunter Tucson, AZ; Trina Nelson Thomas, Senior Rule in your museum, but don’t know J. Smith Director of Education and Visitor Director, Public Programs, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN how to structure your collections or Programs, Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, VA collections policy to do so? If you answered yes, then this workshop is Inquiry-Based Learning and for you. Attendees will explore tiered StEPs Curriculum Train-the- 21st-Century Skills collections and collections policies, Trainer Cost: $45 tracing collections, and creating hands- Cost: Free XX Room: 255C on educational programs. Preregistration Required This workshop will explore a variety Chair: Michelle Zupan, Curator and Director, XX Room: 255B of approaches for using inquiry-based Hickory Hill/Watson-Brown Foundation, This workshop consists of StEPs learning for the study of history and Inc., Thomson, GA; Matt Davis, Curator, curriculum training for staff and history education. Techniques for Old Governor’s Mansion, Milledgeville, GA; Dr. Ron Potvin, Assistant Director and representatives of state and regional school and family programs from the Curator, John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown museum associations, field service New-York Historical Society’s recently University, Providence, RI; Jennessa Reed, offices, and other service organizations. opened DiMenna Children’s History Training Coordinator/Museum Software Chair: Linda Norris, Riverhill, Treadhill, NY Museum and the Kentucky Historical Specialist, PastPerfect Software, Exton, PA; Society will be discussed. Participants Kelly Whitfield, Smith Farm Manager, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA 1:30–5 pm will then practice a number of inquiry- based models as a group. Chair: Mike Deetsch, Student and Family 8:30 am–12:30 pm Connecting Visitors with Programs Manager, Kentucky Historical Society, Inspired Staff: Training Front- Frankfort, KY; Alice Stevenson, Director, Connecting Visitors to Your Site Line Staff and Volunteers DiMenna Children’s History Museum at the New-York Historical Society, New York, NY through Inspired Front-Line Staff Cost: $45 XX Room: 255B Cost: $45 Field Services Alliance Meeting XX Room: 255C Hiring inspired volunteers is only one Front-line staff are one of our greatest of the process of connecting visitors to Cost: Free resources for connecting visitors to our sites. Develop your skills in training Preregistration Required our sites. Develop your skills on how staff and volunteers to lead high-quality XX Room: 258 Members and interested colleagues of FSA will gather to receive an update on a variety of issues facing local grassroot 9 am–3 pm history organizations. The Field Services Manual will be debuted at this 2012 CEO Forum meeting. Visit www.aaslh.org/FSA for Crossroads: Exploring Vibrant Connections more information. Between People and Place Chair: Jeff Harris, Director, Local History Services, Indiana Historical Society, Cost: $150 / $222 for two from same organization Indianapolis, IN XX Room: Radisson Hotel, Parleys 1–2 This year’s Annual Meeting theme, Crossroads: Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place invites us to think about our organizations: the places they hold Post-meeting within their communities; their value and distinctiveness; their connections to individuals and to constituents; Workshops and their ability to effect change and to be affected S • Getting Things Done: aturday by change. In this vein, this year’s CEO Forum will October 6 The AASLH Project encourage the leaders of large history organizations to Management for History think about their place or role within the organization, Professionals Program how they impart value, how they can bring about change, and how they connect both internally (governing • Putting Your Board to Work to Build a boards, employees, and volunteers), and externally as Financially Sustainable Organization the personification of the organization. Registration is See Page 39 open to CEOs and Senior Executives of large history organizations. Chair: Burt Logan, CEO, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH

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8:30–9:45 am positive changes in poorly functioning The Importance of a Digital boards with solutions that include team Strategy Educators and Interpreters building, community involvement, XX Room: 155A Breakfast and Roundtable and the difficult issue of removing a Most history institutions do not follow a member from the board. Preregistration Required technology strategy and as a result they Chair: Janice Klein, Consultant, EightSixSix flounder in the constantly changing Cost: $30 Consulting, Tempe, AZ; Susan Goganian, technology landscape. All institutions, XX Room: 255B Director, Beverly Historical Society, Beverly, Begin the annual meeting at this MA; Rebecca A. Mavencamp, Director, whatever size or budget, need to think engaging breakfast where you can Rockford Area Historical Society, Rockford, strategically about technology. In- MN; Jim McCreight, President, Museum depth conversation with two leaders network with peers in the field of Trustee Association, Washington, DC education and interpretation. The in the field will help you craft a digital breakfast will include discussions about strategy you can maintain and will help Connecting to Collections: identify potential funding sources. current issues facing museum educators Tools You Can Use—The Sequel! and interpreters. Participants will Chair: Tim Grove, Chief of Education, XX Room: 255A Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, have the opportunity to discuss their Building on the success of the 2011 Washington, DC; Nik Honeysett, Head of questions, concerns, and dilemmas. Administration, J. Paul Getty Museum, AASLH Annual Meeting session The roundtable will have something for Los Angeles, CA; Rose Sherman, Director/ “Connecting to Collections: Tools educators at all stages of their careers CIO Enterprise Technology and Business You Can Use,” this sequel provides Development, Minnesota Historical Society, and from institutions large and small. information on new initiatives/key St. Paul, MN Chair: Tobi Voigt, Director of Education, Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI developments from existing statewide preservation programs. Speakers will New Crossroads at the discuss advances in preservation Intersection of Public and 8:30–9:45 am fundraising, disaster planning, and Private collections value assessment, and how Concurrent Sessions XX Room: 355A results can benefit the community. Public-private partnerships are often Chair: Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant cited as the solution to current Bad Boards, Bad Boards, for Digital and Preservation Services, institutional and financial constraints What’cha Gonna Do? Strategies LYRASIS, Westerville, OH; Nichole Doub, Head Conservator, Maryland Archaeological and the reduction of government for Fixing Poorly Functioning Conservation Laboratory, St. Leonard, MD; support for history. Leaders of public Museum Boards Celeste DeWald, Executive Director, California and private history organizations XX Room: 355B Association of Museums, Santa Cruz, CA; discuss old and new models and the Directors of small history museums Paula T. Work, Registrar and Curator of Zoology, Maine State Museum, Augusta, ME opportunities and challenges they will share their experience in making present for the future. Chair: Barbara Franco, Executive Director, Gettysburg’s Seminary Ridge Museum, Gettysburg, PA; David Donath, President/CEO, AASLH Annual Meeting Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, VT; Salt Lake City Burt Logan, Executive Director, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections 26 Between People and Place 8:30–9:45 am continued Thinking About Grad School? 9:45–10:45 am What, Where, and How? Passing the Torch of Leadership XX Room: 155E Morning Refreshment Break in to a Younger Generation The graduate school options available the Exhibit Hall XX Room: 155D to history professionals are bewildering. Small museums with few full-time MA, MAT, MBA, MPH, Ph.D.? History, First Time Attendee Reception staff members usually rely on post- American studies, museum studies, Preregistration Required retirement age volunteers. When public history, archives, museum the individuals who have run these education? Full- or part-time? Live Cost: Free institutions for many years step down, or online? This is not a showcase XX Room: 258 many are replaced with professionally- for graduate programs, but a frank First-time meeting attendees are invited trained paid staff. Also, many discussion of options and their to attend a special reception in their seasoned professionals are planning for pros and cons. honor to meet new colleagues and learn retirement and younger professionals Chair: Laura Roberts, Adjunct Faculty, tips for getting the most out of their are moving into leadership positions. Bank St. College of Education and Harvard annual meeting experience. Join this session and learn how these Extension School, Cambridge, MA; Jane Sponsored by the AASLH Mentor Becker, Internship Coordinator and Committee. different generations learn from each Instructor, History Department, University of other and work together to make for a Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Marilyn J. Sklar, smooth transition for the organization. Director of Education and Communications, 10:45 am–12 pm Chair: Daniel Schlegel, Jr., Executive Director, Rosson House Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Lawrence Yerdon, President and CEO, Scurry County Museum, Snyder, TX; Gary Keynote Address: Pat Croce Walrath, Executive Director, Rocky Mount Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH Historical Association and Museum, Piney XX Room: 255D-F Flats, TN; Donald P. Zuris, Head Curator, Twilight at Conner Prairie: The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History, Corpus Christi, TX Creation, Betrayal, and Rescue of a Museum Save Time with Effective XX Room: 155C Meetings This session is a book discussion on Twilight at Conner Prairie: The Creation, XX Room: 355C Betrayal, and Rescue of a Museum by Do you feel that most meetings at your Berkley W. Duck, III. Participants will institution are a waste? Do you want to have the opportunity to discuss issues gain at least four hours of productive raised and lessons learned from this time a week? Let us show you how! case study of Conner Prairie and its Everyone complains about meetings, split from Earlham College in 2005. but few work to improve them. Learn Sponsored by the National Council on easy steps to make meetings both Pat Public History. shorter and more effective. Chair: Melissa Bingmann, Assistant Professor Croce Chair: Trevor Jones, Director, Museum of History/Director of Public History, West Virginia KeyNote Collections and Exhibitions, Kentucky University, Morgantown, WV; David Allison, Historical Society, Frankfort, KY; Linnea Manager of Visitor Programs, Denver Museum of

Pat Croce and Company Grim, Hunter J. Smith Director of Education Nature and Science, Denver, CO and Visitor Programs, Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, VA When History Hits the Road: 12–1:15 pm Small Museums, Big Impact! Mobile Museums XX Room: 355D XX Room: 155B Luncheons Representatives from three small Learn from Pennsylvania’s and museums will share their successful Virginia’s mobile museum experiences Corporate History Luncheon experiences in developing exhibitions as staff talk about their goals for the Preregistration Required focused on members of their local mobile museums and lessons from their community. These exhibits serve as role travels. The IMLS-funded evaluator Cost: $35 models of how a small museum can for the Pennsylvania project will share XX Room: 258 play a significant role in recognizing the what the project has learned about Join the Corporate History Museum and achievement of local residents in, or maximizing public interest in the Civil Archives Affinity Group for lunch and their connections to, the wider world. War for new audience development. meet with other professionals who work Chair: Paul Katz, Ph.D., Principal, PRIAM, Chair: James M. Vaughan, Executive Director, in the corporate history field. Discuss Panhandle, TX; David W. Dexter, Executive Pennsylvania Historical and Museum hot topics in the field, network with Director, Neenah Historical Society, Neenah, Commission, Harrisburg, PA; Dale Jones, fellow professionals, and bring home WI; Shawn Lum, Executive Director, Vacaville Principal, Making History Connections, great ideas for telling your Glenwood, MD; John R. Seitter, Civil War Museum, Vacaville, CA; Sandra Morrison, corporation’s story. Executive Director, Park City Museum, Park Project Manager, Pennsylvania Heritage City, UT Society/PHMC, Harrisburg, PA Chair: Tiffany Meng, Director, Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum, Atlanta, GA

27 session, will examine job prospects Society, St. Paul, MN; Alexandra Rasic, Public and choices at various points along Programs Manager, Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA; Christopher Shires, Director the career path and discuss how the of Interpretation and Programs, Edsel and AASLH Mentor Program and training Eleanor Ford House, Gross Pointe Shores, MI opportunities can help guide your 12–1:15 pm continued way. Sponsored by the AASLH Mentor Empowering Small Museums on Program and Professional Development Main Street, USA Committee. Small Museums Luncheon XX Room: 155B Chair: Karen Graham Wade, Director, Preregistration Required Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA; Exhibitions and humanities programs Cost: $35 Jody Blankenship, Director of Education, in community-based museums help XX Room: 255B Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, connect people to the place they call Bring your appetite and join fellow KY; Thomas Costello, Principal, Cultural home. Come hear about a Smithsonian Resources Management Group, Reston, VA small museum colleagues for an exhibition project that inspires a fresh upbeat luncheon where together you look at local history and how hands- can sample the key ingredients for Beyond History: Expanding Your on facilitated training by the Utah authentic networking and plan a menu Education Offerings Humanities Council leaves staff and that will help make your museum the XX Room: 155A volunteers of small museums with the toast of the town! Be inspired and The Creative Learning Factory, the knowledge and skills needed to create entertained by self-proclaimed expert professional development arm of vibrant interpretive exhibits that inspire in “comfort food,” Kent Whitworth who the Ohio Historical Society, will local audiences to learn and be proud also serves as the executive director for demonstrate ways participants can of their own history. the Kentucky Historical Society. utilize history collections to provide Chair: Carol Harsh, Director, Museum on Main Street, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Chair: Stacy Klingler, Assistant Director, Local education opportunities beyond history DC; Travis Schenck, Director, Museum of History Services, Indiana Historical Society, by focusing on the arts and humanities. Moab, Moab, UT; Karen Stark, Board Member, Indianapolis, IN While the emphasis will be on outreach Utah Museums Association, Ogden, UT; to K-12 educators, the programming Megan van Frank, Historical and Museum 12–2:45 pm examples may also be used directly Programs Officer, Utah Humanities Council, with students. Salt Lake City, UT Director’s Luncheon and Session Chair: Stacia Kuceyeski, CEO of Creative Learning, Creative Learning Factory at the FSA Tips: Improving Your Online Preregistration Required Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH; Mark Presence Cost: $40 Butler, Creative Learning Engineer, Creative Learning Factory at the Ohio Historical XX Room: 355D XX Room: 255C Society, Columbus, OH; Molly Uline-Olmstead, This session will demonstrate through Directors and CEOs of organizations Creative Learning Engineer, Creative Learning the on-the-spot creation of a website, of all sizes are invited to lunch for Factory at the Ohio Historical Society, several inexpensive and easy-to-use Columbus, OH networking and discussion. The Center digital media tools that historical for the Future of Museums recently organizations can use to create a issued TrendsWatch 2012 on seven Educators and Interpreters dynamic, user-friendly online presence trends that will shape our future. Showcase with everyday hardware such as mobile Consultant Laura Roberts will lead XX Room: 155E phones, video cameras, and laptops. attendees in a discussion on these hot This session enables participants to Sponsored by the Field Services topics. Topics will include how we can join themed discussions on various Alliance and AASLH Professional monitor changes in our community relevant topics, set up as six mini- Development and Small Museums and the wider society and consider roundtables. Each table will be manned Committee. the implications for our organizations by a facilitator with experience on Chair: Mike Frohlich, Multimedia Developer/ and how can board and staff help scan topics including the changing museum Web Manager, State Historical Society of the horizon and think about creative field trip, education outreach strategies, North Dakota, Bismarck, ND; Maggie Marconi, responses. new trends in interpretation, starting Museum Administrator, Sandusky Library Follette House Museum, Sandusky, OH; Scott Chair: D. Stephen Elliott, Director and CEO, an education department from scratch, Wands, Heritage Resource Center and Field Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN working with volunteer docents and Services Director, Connecticut Humanities educators, and more. Participants Council, Middletown, CT 1:30–2:45 pm are encouraged to bring their issues and solutions and participate in History in 4D: Sharing Content Concurrent Sessions discussions. on Historypin Chair: Tobi Voigt, Director of Education and XX Room: 255A AASLH, Your Guide Along the Interpretation, Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI; Sharron Conrad, Curator of In this tutorial, participants will Career Path, Part I Education, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey learn from fellow state and history XX Room: 355B Plaza, Dallas, TX; Callie P. Hawkins, Curator organizations how they can easily use Concerned about where your career of Education, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Historypin’s free web and mobile app is headed by don’t know where to Washington, DC; Tim Hoogland, Director of tools to engage their audiences. See Education Outreach, Minnesota Historical turn? This panel, the first of a double-

28 1:30–2:45 pm continued Reproductions: How, When, and Where to Use Them augmented reality in action and learn XX Room: 155D tips on tech implementations and Do you use reproductions in your community engagement strategies. museum? Four museum professionals Chair: Jon Voss, Strategic Partnerships share their experiences in creating, Sponsored by the AASLH Mentor and Director, Historypin, San Francisco, CA; Professional Development Committees. Robert Killion, Curator of Collection and managing, as well as why and how Chair: Karen Graham Wade, Director, Technology, Peoria Historical Society, Peoria, to use reproductions successfully in Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA; IL; Christine Pittsley, Digital Collections your institution. Presentations include Jody Blankenship, Director of Education, Technician, Connecticut State Library, discussions on theory and practical Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Hartford, CT examples. Sponsored by the AASLH KY; Thomas Costello, Principal, Cultural Military History Affinity Group. Resources Management Group, Reston, VA Making Room for SHA Chair: Carrie Gutierrez, Museum Curator, U.S. XX Room: 355C Army Center of Military History, Washington, At the Crossroads: A Have you ever considered attending DC; Gordon Blaker, Director/Curator, US Army Conversation on Adult Learners or sending a staff member to attend Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, OK; Jacqueline Davis, Curator, Fort Sam Houston Museum, Ft. XX Room: 155D Developing History Leaders @SHA? Sam Houston, TX Adult learners are among our most This session provides an opportunity important and loyal audiences. Yet, to have your questions answered, how What Do History Museums what do we know about their learning to complete a successful application, Really Need to Know About styles? Have we effectively integrated how to survive away from the office or current research about adult visitors without a staff member for three weeks Their Visitors? XX Room: 155C into our exhibits and programs? Join the (its easier than you think), and how the experts for a provocative conversation program develops history leaders. Discuss what history museums need to know about their visitors and how they about these essential members of your Chair: Michelle Moon, Assistant Director of museum audience. Education for Adult Programs, Peabody Essex can use that information to improve the Museum, Salem, MA; John Durel, Coordinator, visitor experience. The Small Museums Chair: Beverly Sheppard, Consultant, Developing History Leaders @SHA, Baltimore, Centreville, MD; Robin Grenier, Ph.D., and Visitors Voices Affinity Groups will Associate Professor of Adult Learning, MD; Kyle McKoy, Museum Director, Arizona share a pilot project of an off-the-shelf Historical Society, Tempe, AZ; Rebecca Department of Educational Leadership, Slaughter, Director, Branigan Cultural Center, visitor study that will be further refined University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Las Cruces, NM by participants during the session. Co-Chairs: Conny Graft, Principal, Conny Canaries in Our Mine: Graft Research and Evaluation, Williamsburg, Opportunities and Resources VA; Stacy Klingler, Assistant Director, Local Embezzlement at History from IMLS History Services, Indiana Historical Society, Organizations XX Room: 355A Indianapolis, IN XX Room: 355C Grant awards offered by the Institute of Just as canaries warned miners of Museum and Library Services advance 2:45–3:45 pm impending danger, this session will the museum field by supporting a feature a certified fraud examiner and range of activities, from professional Afternoon Break in the panelists whose organizations were hit development to conservation and Exhibit Hall by embezzlement, including fraud and educational programming, in a wide identity theft. This must-attend session variety of museums. IMLS has adopted will help your organization identify what a new mission, vision, and five-year 4–5:15 pm policies and procedures you need to strategic plan that will support its have in place. What are the warning continuing efforts to assist museums Concurrent Sessions signs of criminal activity? What do you in connecting with their communities. do if you suspect a problem? How do In this discussion-focused panel, IMLS AASLH, Your Guide Along the you handle the aftermath, if it does program staff will share insight on Career Path, Part II happen to your organization? the strategic plan and the associate XX Room: 155C Chair: Donna K. Sack, Executive Director, changes in museum funding programs Building on the first session, sit down Illinois Association of Museums, Springfield, for 2013, along with dialogue with the IL; Lynne Ireland, Deputy Director, Nebraska with colleagues to discuss what you State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE; audience on submitting a successful can do to get ahead in the history field. Jeffrey Nichols, CEO, Jefferson’s Poplar application for funding. Learn more about the AASLH Mentor Forest, Forest, VA; Kelly Paxton, Certified Chair: Christopher J. Reich, Associate Deputy Program, training programs that are Fraud Examiner, Financial Caseworks, LLC, Portland, OR Director for Museums, Institute of Museum right for you, ways to improve your and Library Services, Washington, DC; Connie Bodner, Senior Program Officer, Institute of resume and interviewing techniques, Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC and characteristics of different jobs in and outside the field. Opportunities for one-on-one counseling sessions will be available for those attending. AASLH Annual Meeting Salt Lake City CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place 29 Chair: Kathleen J. Barker, Assistant Director of do you know what you are responsible Education and Public Programs, Massachusetts for or where to start? Three contributors Historical Society, Boston, MA; Jane Becker, to the newly released Small Museum Internship Coordinator and Instructor, History Department, University of Massachusetts, Toolkit will share some of their insights Boston, MA; Jayne K. Gordon, Director of into mission-based planning and 4–5:15 pm continued Education and Public Programs, Massachusetts implementation for small museums, Historical Society, Boston, MA as well as offer practical strategies Corporations Connecting with for success in collections care basics, Technology in History Their Community advocacy, and visitor studies. Institutions: Four Perspectives Chair: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, CEO, Abbe XX Room: 155B XX Room: 355D Museum, Bar Harbor, ME; Stacy Klingler, Corporate museums and archives Join a discussion about Conner Prairie Assistant Director, Local History Services, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN; collect and interpret the history of Interactive History Park and vendor BPI, business. While often structured as Scott Carrlee, Curator of Museum Services, Indiana Historical Society, and Follett Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK; Barbara a branch of their parent companies, House Museum incorporating technology Walden, Executive Director, Community of corporate museums can offer valuable such as QR codes, holograms, and Christ Historic Sites Foundation, Nauvoo, IL resources to other museums and theater effects combining video the general community. This session and audio, into interpretive guest Uncovering Local History with will focus on what kind of resources experiences. Participants will discuss National History Day corporate museums and archives have how to determine what technology is XX Room: 155A available and what we can do within right for their institution. You know those WWII infantry division the community. Speakers will talk Chair: Trina Nelson Thomas, Senior Director, photographs or troop movement about their experiences working within Public Programs, Indiana Historical Society, records in your collections? Dig out the the museum community and with Indianapolis, IN; Cathy Ferree, Vice President finding aids. Students will be looking the general public. At the end, there of Exhibits, Programs, and Facilities, Conner for information on local soldiers for will be an open forum to encourage Prairie Interactive History Park, Fishers, IN; Maggie Marconi, Museum Administrator, National History Day’s Fallen Soldier dialogue about what works and what Sandusky Library Follett House Museum, Project. You can provide connections to doesn’t within corporate museums. Sandusky, OH; Jeff Mills, Director, Exhibitions a student’s soldier of interest. Attend to Design and Production, Indiana Historical Chair: Tiffany Meng, Director, Delta Air learn more. Transport Heritage Museum, Atlanta, GA; Society, Indianapolis, IN; Bob Noll, Chief Patricia LaBounty, Outreach and Collections Creative Officer, BPI, Norwood, MA Chair: Kim Fortney, Deputy Director, Manager, Union Pacific Railroad Museum, National History Day, College Park, MD; Mary Council Bluffs, IA; Toni Nagel, Director, Visitor Bezbatchenko, State Coordinator, National Services Program, King Ranch, Kingsville, TX Too Important to Fail: Historic History Day in Ohio, Ohio Historical Society, House Museums Meet Columbus, OH; Joe Boyle, Teacher, Rogers Communities’ Needs High School, Bowling Green, OH; Ann Facilitating Conversations Claunch, Director of Curriculum, National with Visitors XX Room: 255A History Day, College Park, MD At a crossroads and facing an uncertain XX Room: 255B future, many historic house museums Our audiences expect to be part of 5:45–6:30 pm are reimagining themselves in response the conversation, but how do we make to specific needs in their communities. that happen? What are the skills that This panel will examine how several Reception: Developing History museum professionals need to facilitate historic sites from around the country Leaders @SHA conversations? Three experienced are creating vibrant connections with XX Room: 258 facilitators will review the basics of their constituents while ensuring their If you aspire to be a better leader in facilitation, work with participants to own long-term sustainability in the your institution, community, and the identify attributes of good facilitation, process. field of public history, join SHA alumni and give participants a chance to Co-Chairs: Kendra Dillard, Director of and faculty to learn about this unique practice their skills. Exhibits, Capital District, California State professional development program. Chair: Sandra Clark, Director, Michigan Parks, Sacramento, CA; and Kenneth C. Hosted by the SHA Alumni Affinity Historical Center, Lansing, MI; Conny Turino, Manager of Community Engagement Group. Graft, Principal, Conny Graft Research and and Exhibitions, Historic New England, Evaluation, Williamsburg, VA; Mark Howell, Boston, MA; Shannon Burke, Director of Principal, Howell Consulting, Williamsburg, VA Education and Visitors Services, Harriet 6:30–9 pm Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT; Cindy Places of Note: Musical Venues Olsen, Administrator, Historic Sites and Museums Division, Minnesota Historical Evening Event: A Stroll Through as Windows on History Society, St. Paul, MN Time: The Natural History XX Room: 355A Museum of Utah Where do we go to find the range of The Toolkit Talks: Collections Cost: $45 music that people encountered every day? Care Basics, Advocacy, and What can these settings tell us about the Visitor Studies communities that created, performed, and XX Room: 355B heard that music? Panelists will discuss Running a small museum is like trying locations such as churches and concert to juggle a dozen balls and when you’re halls, bandstands and parade grounds, a new or terribly overworked leader, how clubs and coffee houses.

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7–8:15 am 8:30–9:45 am Association can be a valuable resource for history organizations. Breakfast: Historic House Concurrent Sessions Chair: Cheryl Kessler, Principal, Blue Scarf Consulting, LLC, Minnetonka, MN; Sarah Museums and Visitors’ Voices Cohn, Principal, Cohn Consulting, St. Paul, Preregistration Required Banish the Boring: Creating MN; Caren Oberg, Principal, Oberg Research, Alexandria, VA; Kristie Smeltzer, Manager Cost: $30 Great Presentations of Visitor Evaluation and Correspondence, XX Room: 255B XX Room: 155C Want to create a really great Monticello/Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Get up early for a joint breakfast with Charlottesville, VA; Mary Jane Taylor, Research the AASLH Historic House Museum presentation? Tired of boring, bullet- and Evaluation Manager, National Constitution Affinity Group and Visitors Voices’ filled PowerPoints? Join us for a lively Center, Philadelphia, PA Affinity Group. Join speakers Conny session that demonstrates techniques Graft and Max van Balgooy for a and approaches to create memorable Boots on the Ground: C2C presentation of Are You in Jeopardy? presentations. It’ll be fun, fast-paced, Outreach Projects Visitors’ Experiences in Historic and challenging—and hopefully, inspire XX Room: 255A Houses as they explore what visitors participants to create their own good This panel will focus on the tribulations are thinking and doing in your historic sessions. and triumphs of statewide field house museum (and it’s not just to look Chair: Linda Norris, The Uncataloged services that have been implemented Museum, Treadwell, NY in the closets!). through the IMLS Connecting to Co-Chairs: Kendra Dillard, Director of Exhibits, Collections grants. It will feature four Capital District State Museums, and Historic Beyond Counting Visitors: Four states that have conducted onsite Parks, California State Parks, Sacramento, Examples of Evaluation in assistance, training, and fundraising CA, and Conny Graft, Principal, Conny Graft History Museums Research and Evaluation, Williamsburg, VA for collections care. XX Room: 155B Chair: LeRae Umfleet, C2C Project How do visitors use museums to Director and ND DCR Chief of Collections make sense of history and connect Management, North Carolina Department it to their lives? Hear about four of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, NC; Tamara Utah is the site of the Hemmerlein, Coordinator, Hoosier Heritage nation’s first department evaluation projects that contributed Alliance, Indiana Historical Society, 450 store: Zions Co-operative to organizations becoming more West Ohio St., Indianapolis, IN; Mark Ryan, Director of Collections and Operations, Plains Mercantile Institution was visitor-centered in their planning and development of programs and exhibits. Art Museum, Fargo, ND established in 1870. Learn also how the Visitors Studies AASLH Annual Meeting Salt Lake City CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place 31 DC; Brandon Johnson, Senior Program Yield to On-Coming Traffic: Officer, Office of Challenge Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, No Stopping Strollers and DC; Danielle Shapiro, Senior Program Small Feet Officer, Division of Public Programs, National XX Room: 155D Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, Many museums are developing 8:30–9:45 am continued DC; Laura Word, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Access, National programs to engage young children. Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC Motivations for doing so and levels Business Models and Earned of success vary. Some museums are Income for Historic Houses People, Place, and What Matters thoughtfully incorporating young XX Room: 355D in Your Community audiences into a larger planning This session will look beyond traditional XX Room: 355C process. Others are responding to new models for historic houses and discuss The current, multidisciplinary needs and interests that have evolved. examples of ways small institutions are scholarship on place will frame a Panelists will share perspectives based addressing the issue of earned income forum about community engagement on experiences. Participants will through creative programs and new strategies in museum practice. Topics consider the direction of their own early revenue streams. The importance of will include: the role of place as an childhood programming. business plans will be discussed and effective community engagement tool, Chair: Betsy Bowers, Deputy Director of Museum Education, Smithsonian Early participants will be involved in a case strategies for museum professionals study to solve problems and create a Enrichment Center, Washington, DC; Ilene to engage communities through place, Dackman-Alon, Director of Education, Jewish plan for a fictional historic site. and the concept of “civic tourism.” Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Gainor Chair: Kenneth C. Turino, Manager of Chair: Donna R. Braden, Curator/Experience Davis, President and CEO, The Western Community Engagement and Exhibitions, Developer, The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI; Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH; Historic New England, Boston, MA; Joshua Candace T. Matelic, Ph.D., President, CTM Linnea Grim, Hunter J. Smith Director of Campbell Torrance, Executive Director, Professional Services, Inc., Santa Fe, NM Education and Visitor Programs, Monticello, Woodlawn Museum, Gardens, and Park, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, Ellsworth, ME; Lawrence Yerdon, President VA; Tara McCauley, Manager of Education and CEO, Strawbery Banke Museum, Taking History to the Streets and Youth Programs, Museum of History and Portsmouth, NH XX Room: 155A Industry, Seattle, WA In the program If This House Could Negotiated Spaces: The Talk, residents post handmade signs in 9:45–10:45 am Commodification of Space and their yards and the neighborhood itself Role of Multiple Histories becomes an exhibit. In associate Pop- Morning Refreshment Break XX Room: 355A Up Performances, actors present stories in the Exhibit Hall The past does not change, but the where they happened. ITHCY organizers chronicling of it is dynamic. The from Cambridge, MA, and Sacramento, meanings people assign places and CA, will share these novel approaches 10:45 am–12 pm events make up the history we tell at to connecting people to place. historic sites. Learn how collaborative, Chair: Cathie Zusy, Originator and organizer, Concurrent Sessions interdisciplinary research and If This House Could Talk, Cambridge, MA; Maryellen Burns, Organizer, If This House African American Culture and programming has led to the inclusion Could Talk, Sacramento, CA of multiple pasts in reinterpreting the Place-Making in a National Mann-Simons site in Columbia, SC. What Can We Do About Public Museum Chair: John Sherrer, Director of Cultural Misconceptions About Our Past? XX Room: 155A Resources, Historic Columbia Foundation, In 2015, the Smithsonian National Columbia, SC; Jakob Crockett, Ph.D., X X Room: 155E Museum of African American History Archaeologist, Historic Columbia Foundation, We are often confronted with the and Culture will open in one of the Columbia, SC; Annie Wright, Ph.D., reality and consequences of public Community Psychologist, Columbia, SC most auspicious locations in the misconceptions of the past, whether United States, the National Mall in the result of education, experience, Washington, DC. What can we learn NEH and Historical or memory. This has become a critical from the ways a national museum deals Organizations: Exploring issue in the age of shared authority with issues of place, tradition, and Connections and user-generated content. Join a identity? XX Room: 355B discussion of how we can help the Learn about NEH support for museums Chair: William Pretzer, Senior History public develop a more holistic and Curator, Smithsonian National Museum and historical organizations, including critical understanding of history. of African American History and Culture, special initiatives and funding Co-Chairs: Anita N. Durel, CFRE, and John Washington, DC; Paul Gardullo, Museum trends. Emphasis will be on smaller W. Durel, Ph.D., Principals, Durel Consulting Curator, Smithsonian National Museum institutions. NEH program officers Partners/Qm2, Baltimore, MD; Jody of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; Elaine Nichols, Senior representing three funding areas will Blankenship, Director, Education Division, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY; Culture Curator, African American History and describe their programs and present Tim Hoogland, Director of Education Outreach Culture, Washington, DC; Kevin Strait, Project case studies. Programs, Minnesota Historical Society, Historian, African American History and Chair: Andrea Anderson, Senior Program St. Paul, MN; Christopher Shires, Director Culture, Washington, DC Officer, Office of Challenge Grants, National of Interpretation and Programs, Edsel and Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI

32 10:45 am–12 pm continued Marketing, Education, and Access: Perspectives on Web Are Your Docents Dwindling, Resources Dull, or Dying? We Can Help! XX Room: 355B XX Room: 355C This session will explore how historical Have you ever thought, “If only we had organizations are using websites for Re-imagining Historic Sites: more or better tour guides, docents, marketing, collections access, and Three Roads to the Same or interpreters, we could improve our educational purposes, where these Destination audience experiences?” Hear some functions diverge and intersect. The XX Room: 255A tested ideas you can adapt to develop panelists will lead a discussion with The declining economy, changing your programs or increase the pool of the audience on how which use, if any, audiences, and a renewed emphasis presenters in your galleries or site. should lead and when, and how the on mission and impact are prompting Chair: Erik Holland, Curator of Education, others can support. many historic sites and house museum State Historical Society of North Dakota, Chair: Mike Frohlich, Multimedia Developer/ to consider new ways to be more Bismarck, ND; Megan Gately, Educator, Web Manager, North Dakota State Historical relevant and engaging. Learn how three Arizona Historical Society, Tempe, AZ Society, Bismarck, ND; Steve Bromage, Deputy Director, Maine Historical Society, organizations have rethought their Context Is the Key: Exploring Portland, ME; Jamie Glavic, Strategic Projects historic sites through visitor research, Coordinator, National Underground Railroad expert charettes, and community Meaning and Relevance at Sites Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH; Stacia workshops. Discover what worked (and of Tragedy Kuceyeski, CEO of Creative Learning Factory what didn’t). at Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH XX Room: 355D Chair: Max A. van Balgooy, President, How does the passage of time alter Engaging Places, LLC, Rockville, MD; how we remember events that hold Putting Meat on the Bones: Barbara Campagna, FAIA, LEED, AP BD+C, broad meaning for communities? This Using Genealogy to Personalize Principal, Barbara A. Campagna Architecture and Planning, Washington, DC; Conny Graft, roundtable uses case studies to explore History Principal, Conny C. Graft Research and how we memorialize the past and XX Room: 155C Evaluation, Williamsburg, VA; Gwendolen create relevance at sites of tragedy. History and family history, or genealogy, Raley, Museum and Heritage Tourism Director, Breakout sessions address how these go hand-in-hand, supporting and Indiana Landmarks, Indianapolis, IN lessons apply to any history deemed enriching each other. This panel will uncomfortable or challenging. This discuss their experiences using family The West: Where Women and session supported by The International history in historical research and writing the Law Meet Coalition of Sites of Conscience. in order to more fully understand the XX Room: 355A Chair: Sharron Wilkins Conrad, Curator of subject. Suggestions will be given on This session will present research Education, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey how to incorporate genealogical sources about women’s legal history in Utah Plaza, Dallas, TX; Clifford Chanin, Director of in historical research. Education and Programs, National September and the American West and lead a 11 Memorial and Museum, New York, NY; Chair: Laurie Hillier, Research Consultant, forum exploring how it can be used in Sarah Jencks, Director of Education, Ford’s US/Canada Reference, Salt Lake City, UT; exhibits and historic site interpretation. Theatre Society, Washington, DC; Lynne Dr. L. Teresa Church, Independent Archival Particular areas of focus include early Consultant, Durham, NC; Craig L. Foster, Roller, Director of Education and Research, women lawyers in Utah, and the arrest Oklahoma City National Memorial and Research Consultant, Family History Library, Museum, Oklahoma City, OK Salt Lake City, UT of women under Utah’s polygamy laws. Sponsored by the AASLH Court and Do History Museums Reenactments: Solid Legal History Affinity Group. Interpretation or Edu-tainment? Chair: Dr. Elizabeth R. Osborn, Assistant Still Need Objects? to the Chief Justice for Court History and XX Room: 155E XX Room: 155B Public Education, Indiana Supreme Court, This session, based on the History History is a blend of truth and Indianapolis, IN; Professor Kathryn Daynes, News article “Do History Museums Still fancy, or what professional Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; Need Objects?” (download at bit.ly/ educators may distinguish as “fact” and “interpretation.” Historical Cathleen Gilbert, Attorney, Gilbert Law Office, HNCollections), considers seven major Bountiful, UT; Carol Madsen, Professor issues facing museums as they seek reenactments carried out before our Emeritus, History, Brigham Young University, to make their collections meaningful eyes more or less on the “scared field” Salt Lake City, UT; Lisa M. Pearson, Lecturer and accessible to the public. Join us or on the television or movie screen too in Law, Stanford University, Stanford, CA to discuss these issues and how they often fades our ability to be analytical affect your daily work. instead our judgment is swayed by Chair: Rainey Tisdale, Independent Curator, emotional engagement with the past— Rolindale, MA; Lynne Ireland, Deputy real or fictionalized. Director, Nebraska State Historical Society, Chair: Gary Walrath, Executive Director, Rocky Lincoln, NE; Trevor Jones, Director, Museum Mount Historical Association and Museum, Collections and Exhibitions, Kentucky Piney Flats, TN; Gordon Blaker, Director/ Historical Society, Frankfort, KY; Linda Norris, Curator, US Army Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, Principal, Riverhill, Treadwell, NY OK; David Freece, Museum Director, Cowlitz AASLH Annual Meeting County Historical Museum, Kelso, WA Salt Lake City CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place 33 The Changing Web: The Future 1–2 pm of the (History) Website XX Room: 355A AASLH Meeting of the How are websites changing in Membership the future? What should history 10:45 am–12 pm continued XX Room: 255D-F organizations be doing to ensure the broadest access and maximum Your Turn: Answers about StEPs, engagement? From the rise of user- 2:15–3:30 pm MAP, and CAP Assessment generated content to the explosion of Programs mobile technology, we will ponder the Plenary Address: XX Room: 155D changing landscape of the Internet. Staff from each of the national Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Attendees will be invited to join in the assessment programs will answer XX Room: 255D-F discussion. moderator and audience questions and Chair: Tim Grove, Chief of Education, discuss strengths and unique attributes Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC; Bill Adair, Director, Heritage that each program offers. Philadelphia Program, Pew Center for Arts Chair: Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, and Heritage, Philadelphia, PA; Cassie AASLH, Jefferson City, MO; Cinnamon Catlin- Chinn, Deputy Executive Director, Wing Luke Legutko, CEO, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Museum of the Asian Pacific, American ME; Jill Connors-Joyner, Assistant Director, Experience, Seattle, WA; Rose Sherman, Museum Assessment Program, American Director, Enterprise Technology and Business Alliance of Museums, Washington, DC; Kristen Development, Minnesota Historical Society, Laise, Vice President, Collections Care Programs, Laurel St. Paul, MN Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC Thatcher Ulrich

Plenary Developing Coalitions Among

Service News University Harvard Mitchell, 12–1 pm Stephanie Small Museums XX Room: 255C AASLH Membership and Panelists from small history museums Networking Luncheon in Phoenix’s East Valley will present 3:30–4 pm Cost: Free their experiences in collaborating XX Room: Exhibit Hall to create a coalition among regional Open to all, this is your chance to Afternoon Break in Exhibit Hall history museums which has check out the latest and greatest and Book Signings strengthened each institution. This products available in the exhibit hall coalition, the East Valley Museum while grabbing a complimentary lunch. 4 pm Coalition, has combined the assets and skills of different organizations to 12–1:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closes produce exhibits, share collections, and improve community engagement. Chair: Brian Crockett, Independent Court and Legal History 4–5:15 pm Professional, Albuquerque, NM; Lisa Luncheon Anderson, President and CEO, Mesa Historical Preregistration Required Concurrent Sessions Museum, Mesa, AZ; Jody Crago, Museum Administrator, Chandler Museum, Chandler, AZ Cost: $35 2013 Annual Meeting XX Room: 255B Historic Places as Museums: Join one of AASLH’s newest affinity Roundtable groups for a stimulating program and XX Room: 155E Crossroads of Expectations help welcome them officially to the We want to hear from you! The program XX Room: 155D AASLH affinity group family. This group committee for the 2013 AASLH Annual Using historic properties to teach is comprised of individuals working Meeting in Birmingham, AL, wants to history sounds like a win-win as in state legal history societies, circuit hear your ideas for our next meeting. a historic site or local museum. court libraries, and the U.S. Supreme What did you like about the meeting? However, historic properties became Court Historical Society. The luncheon What should we have done differently? a crossroads of people with certain speaker will be Thomas Alexander, Members of the 2013 Annual Meeting expectations and places intentionally Professor Emeritus of Western American program committee should attend. All constructed with others. Learn about history at Brigham Young University. meeting attendees are welcome. considerations in reusing historic He will be speaking on Carpetbaggers, Chair: Katherine Kane, Executive Director, places as sites or small museums. Reprobates, and Liars: Federal Judges Harriett Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT; Chair: David Grabitske, Manager of Outreach Bob Beatty, Vice President for Programs, Services, Minnesota Historical Society, and the Utah war, 1857-58. If you want AASLH, Nashville, TN St. Paul, MN; Diane Adams-Graf, Historic to know how carpetbaggers, reprobates, Properties Manager, Minnesota Historical and liars became federal judges, this is Society, St. Paul, MN; Pat Miller, Executive the man to tell you! Director, Illinois Heritage Association, Champaign, IL4–5:15 pm continued Chair: Bradley B. Williams, Director, Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, Pasadena, CA

34 4–5:15 pm continued candidly share their experiences in re-visioning an established historical Lyres and Tires and Barns, Oh society and metropolitan museum. My! Using Nomenclature 3.0 Chair: Dr. Lorraine McConaghy, Public Historian, Museum of History and Industry, for Museum Cataloging Seattle, WA; Tara McCauley, Education and XX Room: 355B Youth Programs Manager, MOHAI, Seattle, Wrestling with Issues of Change As museums turn to technology to WA; Julia Swan, Manager of Programs and and Controversy share their collections, cataloging Community Engagement, MOHAI, Seattle, XX Room: 155A WA; Jeanne Thompson, Advancement Officer, standards are more important than MOHAI, Seattle, WA This panel will highlight issues that ever. Learn how the recently published developed as the Atlanta History Center Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Standing at the Crossroads of undertook a museum-wide three- Cataloging is meeting this need. Diversity: Creating Pathways year initiative to transform its visitor Panelists will discuss Nomenclature’s experience for all ages and tell a more new structure, format, conventions, to Employment for Under- complete history inclusive of previously and general use. Learn how the represented Communities unheard voices that reflect the diversity accompanying website and other XX Room: 155B of Atlanta’s past, present, and future. supplementary materials can help Most organizations make commitments Co-Chairs: Kate Whitman, Vice President museums adopt Nomenclature 3.0. to staff diversity in their strategic plans, of Public Programs, and Andrea Childress, Education Specialist, Meet the Past, Atlanta Chair: Paul Bourcier, Chief Curator, Wisconsin but these aspirations often fail to be History Center, Atlanta, GA; Susie Wilkening, Historical Society, Madison, WI; Trevor realized. This session will look at how Senior Consultant and Curator of Museum Jones, Director of Museum Collections and the Minnesota Historical Society has Audiences, Reach Advisors, Quincy, MA Exhibitions, Kentucky Historical Society, developed replicable strategies for Frankfort, KY; Sarah Kappelusch, Curator and pre-professional development that is Collections Manager, The History Museum at 6:30–9:30 pm the Castle, Appleton, WI creating pathways to employment for minority and American Indian students. Chair: Tim Hoogland, Director of Education AASLH Leadership in History Outreach Programs, Minnesota Historical Awards Banquet Society, St. Paul, MN; Kyle Parsons, Diversity Preregistration Required, Cost: $55

Pat Scott Pat Outreach Program Associate, Minnesota Benson Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Bradley XX Room: Radisson Hotel, Wasatch Sam, Program Supervisor, Mille Lacs Indian Ballroom Grist Mill Museum and Trading Post Site, Minnesota Historical Society, Onamia, MN; Chris Taylor, Diversity Outreach Programs Manager, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Travis Zimmerman, Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post Site Manager and Indian Laura Bayer Affairs Liaison, Minnesota Historical Society, Onamia, MN

Visitors to Religious Sites: The Whos and Whys XX Room: 255A Will By examining sites associated with Bagley Mormon history, discover how historic Banquet properties associated with a variety Speaker of faith traditions might expand their mission and attract new audiences. Reinventing Your Museum: New The session will focus on three specific Audiences, Great Expectations roles played by religious properties: XX Room: 355D pilgrimage sites, destinations of historic Faced with impending demolition, interest, and places of community Seattle’s Museum of History and gathering. Sponsored by the AASLH Industry (MOHAI) began a daring Religious History Affinity Group. reinvention. This panel discussion Chair: Karen Graham Wade, Director, Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA; will feature managers from the Public Gary L. Boatright, Jr., Historic Sites Curator, Programs, Education and Youth LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, Programs, Exhibits, and Advancement UT; Melissa Bingmann, Assistant Professor, Departments each of whom will Director of Public History, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; Barbara B. Walden, Executive Director, Community of Christ Historic Sites Foundation, Lexington, KY AASLH Annual Meeting Salt Lake City CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place 35 Saturday, October 6

Utah Symphony performing in

the Salt Lake Tabernacle. 1947 Utah State Historical Society Historical State Utah

7:30–8:45 am 9–10:15 am community past and present through traditional and dynamic new uses of Breakfast: Military History and Concurrent Sessions local records. Panelists will highlight Religious History the multiple research uses and the challenges in educating new audiences Preregistration Required A Measured Approach to in the uses of these records. Cost: $30 Integrating Sustainability in History Organizations Chair: Karri Krattley, Archives Manager, Salt XX Room: 258 Lake County Archives, West Valley City, UT; Join these two AASLH affinity groups XX Room: 155A Paula Mitchell, CA, University Archivist, (including the newest AASLH affinity For many organizations, integrating Southern Utah University, Gerald R. Sharratt group, Religious History) as they sustainability reduces impacts on Library, Cedar City, UT; Sharon Silengo, CA, the environment and saves operating Photograph Archivist, State Historical Society explore the complex and intertwined of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND religious and military history of Utah. costs. This forum introduces Bob Voyles of the Ft. Douglas Military how organizations can evaluate sustainability and incorporate strategies From Sustenance to Relevance: Museum will discuss the Utah Wars Reinterpreting Food, Place, and and their impact on the state and the that fit their needs. Attendees will LDS church. work with different scenarios, which Local History XX Room: 255D Co-Chairs: Gordon Blaker, Director/Curator, will demonstrate the benefits and U.S. Army Military Museum, Ft. Sill, OK and accessibility of sustainability for large Food history is a powerful pathway to Gary L. Boatright, Jr., Historic Sites Curator, to small history organizations. community connections. Transcending LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake Chair: Shengyin Xu, LEED AP BD+C, nostalgia, local history museums can City, UT Institutional Sustainability Specialist, serve as educational clearinghouses Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; for vital knowledge that not only Matt Hill, Manager, Arts and Cultural Heritage illuminates the past and celebrates Women’s Suffrage was won Fund, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN place, but demonstrates relevance twice in Utah. First in 1870 today and generates solutions for by the territorial legislature but Communities and Archives: community resilience in the face of revoked by Congress in 1887, Exploring New Uses for Old future challenges. Sponsored by the National Council on Public History. and then restored in 1895 Records Chair: Michelle Moon, Assistant Director of when the right to vote and XX Room: 355D Education for Adult Programs, Peabody Essex hold office was written into the Local records can be found in state, Museum, Salem, MA; John Forti, Curator of constitution of the new state. university, or government archives. The Historic Gardens and Landscapes, Strawbery panelists will discuss interpretations of Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH; Cathy Stanton, Lecturer, Tufts University, Wendell, M

36 9–10:15 am continued L-A, Lewiston, ME; Dr. Lorraine McConaghy, learn? When they’re older (and a little Historian, Museum of History and Industry, surly) how can we get them truly Seattle, WA; Deborah F. Schwartz, President, Growing Awareness and Creating Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY interested? Panelists will share the Change: Museums and the results of two pilot projects, one geared Disability Community Secrets from the Lodge: toward four- to seven-year-olds and the other to high school students, to get the XX Room: 155D Identifying and Demystifying conversation started. On July 26, 1990, Congress passed Fraternal Objects Chair: Laura Koloski, Senior Program the Americans with Disabilities XX Room: 355A Specialist, Heritage Philadelphia Program, Act, the disability community’s civil By 1900, over 250 American fraternal Philadelphia, PA; Maria Möller, Artist, rights act. Today, museums are only groups existed, numbering six million Philadelphia, PA; Dan Spock, Director of beginning to realize the implications History Center Museum, Minnesota Historical members. The regalia, badges, Society, St. Paul, MN of creating environments that connect souvenirs, and ritual objects used by to people with disabilities. Panelists these groups have made their way to Telling a Good Story will discuss their efforts to commit to local historical societies and museums XX Room: 355C full accessibility and challenge other ever since. This session will offer This session will focus on the museums to do the same. practical information on how to identify, importance of finding key stories to Chair: Sharon Smith, Curator of Civic and interpret, and exhibit the Masonic and Personal Identity, Missouri History Museum, engage audiences at history museums fraternal objects in your collection. St. Louis, MO; Colleen Kelly Stackloff, Co- and historic sites. Using models from Director, Stackloff Disability Institute, St. within and outside the field, we will Louis, MO; Whitney Watson, Senior Exhibition Designer, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, discuss why stories matter, what makes MO; Jennifer Wolff, Manager, Interpretation, a good story, and how to engage our Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO Olympic organizations in the development of Caul dron compelling stories. Localizing Difficult Histories Park Chair: Linda Norris, The Uncataloged XX Room: 155C Museum, Treadwell, NY Want to broaden you impact with your communities? This session examines 10:15–10:45 am how programming and exhibitions related to slavery, nuclear weapons, Morning Break in Foyer the Holocaust, and even controversy itself have been used to successfully 10:45 am–12 pm engage local communities with histories that extend far beyond their Concurrent Sessions borders, yet may hit much closer than they realize. 21st-Century Roundtable for Chair: Cynthia Capers, Associate Director of Education and Changing Exhibitions, Museum Professionals Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, XX Room: 255D TX; Jason Crabill, Manager, Curatorial Museums and the museum profession Services, Ohio Historical Society, are changing. What are these changes Columbus, OH; Jamie Glavic, Strategic and how should museum professionals Projects Coordinator, National Underground Eric Schramm Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH; prepare themselves? Issues to be Mark Sundlov, Site Supervisor, Ronald Reagan Chair: Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Director of discussed include: visions for the Minuteman Missile State Historic Site, Collections, Scottish Rite Masonic Museum future of museums, preparing both Cooperstown, ND and Library, Lexington, MA; Adam G. professionally and personally for these Kendall, Collections Manager and Curator of changes and how various levels and Meshing Mission and Exhibits, Henry W. Coil Library and Museum generations of museum leadership are of Freemasonry, San Francisco, CA; Hilary Community: Identifying Anderson Stelling, Director of Exhibitions and meeting these changes. Strategies for Engagement Audience Development, Scottish Rite Masonic Chair: Kyle McKoy, Director, Arizona XX Room: 355B Museum and Library, Lexington, MA Historical Society Museum at Papago Park, Engaging your community can be Tempe, AZ; Patricia Brooks, Manager of African-American Initiatives, The Colonial challenging when the neighbors think Serious Play: Interpreting Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA; that local history doesn’t matter of they History for Young Audiences Christopher Shires, Director of Interpretation can visit anytime (so why visit today?). XX Room: 255A and Programs, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Three history organizations of vastly Most of us want to engage young Grosse Pointe Shores, MI different sizes and types share what’s audiences with history at our sites worked (and what hasn’t) to uncover and museums, but what are we really the ingredients for success and identify hoping they’ll get from these programs? next step for your museum. When those audiences are preliterate, AASLH Annual Meeting Chair: Max van Balgooy, President, Engaging what, if anything, can we hope they’ll Places, LLC, Rockville, MD; Rachel Salt Lake City Desgrosseilliers, Executive Director, Museum CROSSROADS: Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place 37 Journey for Justice: Local of the typical geographic areas History, Civil Rights, and the for national institutions, such as Power of Place Washington, DC, or New York. Specific themes that will be addressed are: XX Room: 155D This sixty-minute documentary on audience attraction and retention, 10:45 am–12 pm continued the work of the late New Orleans interpretation, fundraising, and civil rights attorney, Alexander Pierre community perception and marketing. Gems in the Rough: Mining Trudeau, Sr. will be followed by a Chair: Dina Bailey, Director of Exhibitions and Collections, National Underground Railroad Social Medial for Local History discussion with his son, A.P. Trudeau, Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH; David Information Jr. and historian Rachel Emanuel. The Mandel, Curator of Exhibits, Hubbard Museum XX Room: 355A power of place was, in turn, the source of the American West, Rudolso Downs, NM; of power for civil rights change led Leslie Mooney, Manager of Corporate and Learn to use social media in an entirely Foundation Relations, National Underground new way: as a source of raw history content, by Trudeau, Sr., who worked to better Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinatti, OH ready to refine into compelling museum Louisiana rather than move north or projects. This session delves into real user- accept Jim Crow oppression. generated content from several platforms to Long Term Sustainability Issues Chair: Jessica Dorman, Director of reveal the power of social media to create with Online Reference Works genuine multi-vocal conversations about Publications, The Historic New Orleans place and the past. Collection, New Orleans, LA; Rachel Emanuel, XX Room: 255A Ph.D., Director, Communications and Chair: Michelle Moon, Assistant Director of If you have an online encyclopedia Development Support, Southern University or other reference work, or plan Education for Adult Programs, Peabody Essex Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA; A.P. Trudeau, Museum, Salem, MA; Jamie Glavic, Strategic Jr., Educational Consultant, Ridgefield, CT on starting one in the future, join Projects Coordinator, National Underground members of the Internet Digital Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH Integrating a National Institution Encyclopedia Alliance for conversation, with the Local Community networking, and lots of ideas. The program will include an update on X X Room: 355C activities of AASLH’s IDEA group as This session will explore the unique well as reports on digital projects opportunities and challenges presented around the country. The roundtable for national museums located outside

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38 Post-Meeting Workshops

These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration form for details.

Saturday, 8:30 am–5 pm Cost: $75 Utah Capitol Getting Things Done: The AASLH Project Management for Dome History Professionals Program

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CVB City Lake Salt Buckley, Sean This workshop teaches the basics of project management for history professionals—taking projects through the phases of conception, planning, implementing, and closing—and offers a preview of the newest component 10:45 am–12 pm continued of the well-received program, a ten-module AASLH Introduction to Project Management course offered completely online to history professionals (available 2013). will include a special focus on Chair: Steven Hoskins, Project Director, AASLH Project Management for History sustainability issues with online Professionals Program, AASLH, Nashville, TN reference works. Chair: Douglas E. Barnett, Chief of Staff, University of Texas Libraries, Austin, TX; Saturday, 1–4:30 pm Cost: $45 Ann Toplovich, Executive Director, Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, TN Putting Your Board to Work to Build a Financially Sustainable Paranormal Policies Organization XX Room: 155A XX Room: 355C From facility use policies that cover the The board should connect your organization to its community in ways Ghost Hunters to the discussion of who that build reputation and bring in financial resources. This workshop will owns the findings, dealing with press, present strategies for engaging the board in this challenging work. We will and marketing about possible haunting cover the key elements of sustainability, practical ways to help the board or not, this session is an opportunity to meet its responsibilities, and the executive director’s role in leading and actually discuss how museum staff deal supporting the board. (or not) with paranormal researchers. Co-Chairs: Anita N. Durel, CFRE, and John W. Durel, Ph.D., Principals, Durel Consulting Partners/QM2, Baltimore, MD Chair: Kat Burkhart, Executive Director/ Curator, Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County, Crawfordsville, IN; Lisa Anderson, CEO, Mesa Historical Museum, Mesa, AZ; Leah Craig, Curator of Education, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Allyn Lord, Director, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale, AR Utah State Historical Society Presidential Sites and Libraries Roundtable XX Room: 155C Join colleagues in the PS&L field as we discuss strategies for service to the affinity group and prepare for the 2014 Presidential Sites and Libraries conference in Little Rock, AR. Chair: Nicola Longford, Executive Director at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, TX

People Waiting to enter the Salt Lake Theatre. May 3, 1910

39 AASLH Annual Meeting Salt Lake City s! CROSSROADS: Special thank Exploring Vibrant Connections Between People and Place AASLH would like to recognize the many volunteers who contributed their valuable time, energy, and expertise to the success of this year’s conference. We appreciate you!

Program Committee

Scott M. Stroh, III, Chair Kendra Dillard Mark Jensen Bill Peterson Milwaukee County Historical Capital District State Museums Dangberg Ranch Historic Park Deadwood History, Inc. Society and Historic Parks, California Minden, NV Deadwood, SD Milwaukee, WI State Parks Jeremy Johnson Alexandra Rasic Sacramento, CA David Allison Historical Society of Palm Beach Workman and Temple Family Golden History Museums Anna Forgerson County Homestead Museum Golden, CO Smithsonian Early Enrichment West Palm Beach, FL City of Industry, CA Center Laura Caldwell Anderson Trevor Jones Julie Rose Washington, DC Birmingham Civil Rights Kentucky Historical Society West Baton Rouge Museum Institute Janet L. Gallimore Frankfort, KY Port Allen, LA Birmingham, AL Idaho State Historical Society Katherine Kane Trina Nelson Thomas Boise, ID Dina Bailey Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Indiana Historical Society National Underground Railroad Leigh Grinstead Hartford, CT Indianapolis, IN Freedom Center LYRASIS Jeff Kollath Mark Thompson Cincinnati, OH Denver, CO Wisconsin Veterans Museum Jefferson Patterson Park and Jackie Barton Tim Grove Madison, WI Museum Ohio Historical Society Smithsonian National Air and Saint Leonard, MD Nicola Longford Columbus, OH Space Museum The Sixth Floor Museum at Craig Tuminaro Washington, DC Gordon Blaker Dealey Plaza Historic New England U.S. Army Artillery Museum Amanda Gustin Dallas, TX North Hampton, NH Ft. Sill, OK The Mary Baker Eddy Library Maggie Marconi Tobi Voigt Somerville, MA Gary L. Boatright, Jr. Sandusky Library/Follett House Detroit Historical Society LDS Church History Department Carol Harsh Museum Detroit, MI Salt Lake City, UT Smithsonian Institution Traveling Sandusky, OH Robert Voyles Exhibits Services, Museums on Catherine Burkhart Lorraine McConaghy Utah Museums Association Carnegie Museum of Main Street Museum of History and Industry Salt Lake City, UT Washington, DC Montgomery County Seattle, WA Gary Walrath Crawfordsville, IN Tim Hoogland Tiffany Meng Rocky Mount Historical Minnesota Historical Society Meg Clovis Delta Air Transport Heritage Association Monterey County Historical St. Paul, MN Museum, Inc. Piney Flats, TN Advisory Commission Lynne Ireland Atlanta, GA Salinas, CA Nebraska State Historical Society Lincoln, NE

Utah Host Committee Bingham Robert Voyles, Host Chair, Utah Museums Association* Canyon Alan Barnett, Utah State Archives* Gary L. Boatright, Jr,, LDS Church History Library* Lynette Hiskey, Utah Division of Arts and Museums* Kirk Huffaker, Utah Heritage Foundation* Linda Hunt, Foothill Cultural District* Kaia Landon, Brigham City Museum, Brigham City Sandra Morrison, Park City Historical Society, Park City Heidi Orchard, Utah Division of State History* Justina Parsons-Berstein, Utah State Parks and Recreation* Patricia Lyn Scott, Independent Historian* Megan Van Frank, Utah Humanities Council* Keri Wilde, Fort Douglas Military Museum*

*Salt Lake City Utah State Historical Society Historical State Utah

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2013 AASLH Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama.

We encourage you to submit a session proposal by November 16.

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