Regional Conferences

Regional meetings and conferences bring the ALHFAMily together for intra-region gatherings and allow for more organizational interaction within a smaller geographical area.

Check the Upcoming listings below to see which conferences are coming up soon in your area, or which place outside your region you would like to visit and attend a meeting.


Regional meetings and conferences bring the ALHFAMily together for intra-region gatherings and allow for more organizational interaction within a smaller geographical area.

Check the Upcoming listings below to see which conferences are coming up soon in your area, or which place outside your region you would like to visit and attend a meeting.

Upcoming

    • 27 Oct 2023
    • 28 Oct 2023
    • 219 S Front St, Harrisburg, PA 17104
    • 65
    Register
    Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
    October 27-28, 2023
    at the John Harris-Cameron Mansion in Harrisburg, PA. 

    Farmers, Tinkerers, and Tailors: The Hidden Lives of Statesmen Throughout History


    Through its 200+ year history, Harrisburg, PA has welcomed 40 presidents through its city gates. While we primarily know them for their brief stints in office, our statesmen were farmers, tailors, and tradesmen first and foremost. 

    Our Keynote Speaker will be Ron Carnegie, an ALHFAM member and first-person interpreter for Colonial Williamsburg. Our program features traditional, hands-on, and workshop presentations, including: Thomas Jefferson's agricultural activities, a dance fundamentals workshop, a presentation about an assassinated Revolutionary War veteran and so much more!

    DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM HERE

    Registration is $100

    The address for the John Harris Mansion is:
    219 S Front St, Harrisburg, PA 17104.

    Hotel Information:

    The Quality Inn "Choice" is two blocks from the Dauphin County Historical Society mansion. The price for Oct. 27/28 is $79.95 per night which includes free parking for the event and breakfast.

    Quality Inn "Choice"
    525 South Front Street
    Harrisburg PA 17104

    Phone: 717-233-1611
    Email: opspa129@wankawala.com

    Reservations can be made starting Sept 16 at noon.

    Parking information:

    The Harris-Cameron Mansion has a parking lot with capacity for 15-20 cars. Washington Street, adjacent to the mansion, and Vine Street, a block south, both have free street parking. There is also paid parking across the street from the mansion at the UPMC Harrisburg Hospital Parking Garage.

    For questions, please contact Program Coordinator Jessica Michonski (jmichonski13@yahoo.com), or Regional Co-Reps Dave Biser (pastor1776@comcast.net) and Rose Gallenberger (rose.gallenberger@gmail.com).

    • 09 Nov 2023
    • 11 Nov 2023
    • Scotts, Michigan

    MOMCC Fall 2023 Conference

    PRESERVING THE FODDER OF HISTORY OUTSIDE OF THE SILO

    Location: Tillers International, Scotts, Michigan
    Registration ends October 18th.
    See this PDF for more information.


    The communities we serve are in an ongoing dialogue regarding numerous serious concerns. That living history is uniquely positioned to add a pertinent voice to these discussions is an exciting and sobering obligation. Research undertaken at our sites typically mirrors other public history formats which center on archival materials and historic objects. The established standards and protocols embraced in order to preserve tangible materials (restricting their use, handling and exposure to environmental degradation) have been adopted by living history sites without alteration. Largely overlooked are the ele-ments of intangible heritage which living history sites are uniquely positioned to research, develop, propagate and preserve. These are the unrecorded skills, knowledge and underpinnings required for many of the objects in our collection to function optimally. Without these intangible skills, we have no way to accurately assess the rationale of the common culture of our past. Unlike the physical objects in our care, these intangible skills can only be maintained while in use; when put away they atrophy. The nutritional benefits of the fodder of common culture can only be realized when “fed-out” – it can only be preserved outside of the silo!

    What resources are needed by living history sites in order to increase scholarship of intangible cultural heritage? What will the museum culture look like if the high level of connoisseurship and conservation practiced with material objects is to be applied to historic skills? How can we promote a more holistic approach to scholarship, which includes consideration of both tangible and intangible culture? In other words, how can the procedures and protocols of “conventional” fields of history be transposed into the acquisition and preservation of the skills within our intangible historic collections?

    This will be the focus of our time together during MOMCC’s fall conference. It is a focus requiring involvement by everyone associated with living history, from every specialty. Two day intensive workshops will be aimed at exploring ways in which developing, practicing and preserving historic skills can be combined with more traditionally exercised museum disciplines in order to flush-out questions of historic cultures in unique ways. Throughout the conference participants will be asked to consider variations of two questions:

    • What factors encouraged a specific solution to be chosen over competing

    alternatives at any given point in time?

    • How are these historic cultural models pertinent to contemporary world challenges?

    Stated another way, we will consider how to preserve the fodder of history outside of the silo.

    See more at: https://momcc.org/


    • 21 Mar 2024
    • 23 Mar 2024

    MOMCC 2024 Spring Conference
    (Midwest Open Air Museums Coordinating Council)

    Bishop Hill IL March 21-23, 2024


    Seeking Utopia: A Look at How Innovations and Traditions Help Some Utopias Thrive

    Join us at the Utopia on the Prairie as we look at the ways that technology advances, combined with traditional crafts, help utopias and other historic sites survive and prosper.  Investigate the various ways these places have evolved over the decades.  For this particular conference, we will emphasize hands-on workshops, where participants will learn about traditional handicrafts.

    https://bishophillheritage.org/

    Session proposals are now being accepted; see the form for additional details. Use this form.

    Session proposals should be submitted not later than August 1, 2023 Submit to Todd DeDecker, Program Chair, PO Box 92, Bishop Hill, IL 61419

    bhha@mymctc.net Phone 309 927-3899 www.bishophillheritage.org



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