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C O N F E R E N C E
Waterways and Byways, 1600–1890
Norwich Mail Stage. Providence Gazette, 9 May 1829.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 12 through 14, 2009
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Waterways and Byways, 1600–1890 is a three-day conference on early transportation networks and activities in New England before 1890. Sessions include talks on Indian trails, canal building and life, layout and construction of roadways and turnpikes, and winter travel. Other talks will address timekeeping, accommodations, piracy, maritime escape routes for slaves, the peddling trades, and traveling circuses. The conference will also include a guided tour of the Hall Tavern in Deerfield. The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, collectors, dealers, authors, librarians, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially invited to attend. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program speakers will be available for purchase at the conference.
The thirty-fourth annual meeting in the Seminar series, Waterways and Byways, 1600–1890 will take place on the weekend of June 12 through 14, 2009 at Deerfield, Massachusetts. The lecture program will be held at the White Church beginning on Friday evening and will continue until approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. Meals will include lunch and dinner on Saturday, June 13; coffee and doughnuts will be served each morning. Dormitory accommodations will be available at Deerfield’s Eaglebrook School beginning Friday afternoon. (A list of nearby motels and bed & breakfast establishments is available at www.co.franklin.ma.us/accom.htm.) A selected and edited transcript of this conference will appear as the 2009 Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, which will be issued about eighteen months after the conference.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday Afternoon, June 12
Geography and Commerce
Clifford J. Schexnayder, Arizona State University: An Indian Trail over Hoosac Mountain
Nicholas J. Aieta, Westfield State College: Interconnections: The Connecticut River and the Mohawk Trail
Gordon M. Riedesel, Plymouth State University: The Historical Geography of Chairmaking in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Saturday Morning, June 13
Canal Life
Kenneth L. Williamson, Mount Holyoke College: Inclined to Succeed: The South Hadley Canal
Richard DeLuca, Cheshire, Connecticut: “Memphremagog or Bust!”: The Connecticut River Company and the Battle for the Upper Connecticut River
Tom Kelleher, Old Sturbridge Village: The Blackstone Canal: Artery to the Heart of the Commonwealth
Jane Weiss, Kingsborough Community College: Manufacturing Eden: The Canals of Lowell, 1820–1870
Saturday Afternoon, June 13
Tavern Life
Tour of the Hall Tavern led by Historic Deerfield staff.
Construction of Highways and Turnpikes
Richard Russack, WhiteMountainHistory.org.: 10th New Hampshire Turnpike: The Men Who Built It and How
Cece Saunders, Historical Perspectives, and David A. Poirier, Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office: Traveling that Bumpy Road: Corduroy Construction in Eighteenth-Century Highways
Susan Ouellette, St. Michael’s College: Lake Champlain: Ice Highway / Ice Byway
Saturday Evening, June 13
Time, Staying Safe, and Fighting Piracy
Bob Frishman, Bell-Time Clocks: Timekeeping and Timekeepers on New England Byway
Patricia Oat-Judge, Farmington, Connecticut: The Diary of Jabez Fitch: Traveling between Connecticut and Vermont, 1780–1781
James I. Deutsch, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: Pirates, Bandits, and Runagates: Roving Outlaws on Early American Waterways
Sunday Morning, June 14
Coastal Routes
Charles R. Foy, Eastern Illinois University: Waterways of Freedom: Eighteenth-Century Maritime Escape Routes
Aaron Paul, United States Coast Guard: Maine’s Myriad Waterways and the Formation of a Gilded Age Industry: Granite Manufacturing Revisited
Jane C. Bianco, Farnsworth Art Museum: Jonathan Fisher: Observations along Pathways in Maine and Massachusetts, 1796–1835
Peddling Life: Medicines, Clocks, and Circuses
Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar: Dr. Yeldall: An Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Pharmacist Navigates the American Northeast
Mary Jane Dapkus, American Clock and Watch Museum: Steamboats, Rivers, Railroads, and Canals: A Yankee Clock-Peddling Venture in the “Tucky-Ho”
Richard W. Flint, Howard County Historical Society, Maryland: “Like an Avalanche”: Circuses and Rail Transport
ADVANCE REGISTRATION
To register for this conference, please check the appropriate box (or boxes) on this form. Reservations are limited, will be accepted in the order they are received, and must arrive on or before June 4, 2009. Registrants may request complimentary lecture abstracts through e-mail. Advance registrations are refundable (less $10 handling) if returned before June 4, 2009.
[ ] Registration for lecture program, June 13 and 14, including lunch and dinner on Saturday, June 13. $115
[ ] Registration for full-time students including lunch and dinner on Saturday June 13. (Please indicate school and year of graduation.) $90
Optional Housing
[ ] Housing at Eaglebrook School dormitory, Friday and Saturday nights, June 12 and 13. $80
[ ] Single-room surcharge. $45
[ ] I wish to apply for a scholarship to attend the conference. My résumé and two letters of recommendation are enclosed.
[ ] Please send me e-mail abstracts of speakers’ papers.
Optional Museum Pass
[ ] Reduced-rate ticket to Historic Deerfield, Thursday, June 11, through Monday, June 15 (must be reserved in advance). $5
Dublin Seminar Annual Membership
[ ] Members receive topic, conference, and publication announcements; a copy of the current Annual Proceedings; 10 percent discount on conference fees; and 10 percent discount on all Seminar publications purchased at the conference. $30
[ ] Donation to Scholarship Fund. Amount _________.
Funds will be applied to applications received this year. Any leftover scholarships
will be applied to this purpose in 2010.
Mail to:
Peter Benes, Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215
Phone: 978/369-7382 • E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu
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Note to Massachusetts public school teachers: This conference may be used for Professional Development Points.