BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Mass History Commons - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://masshistorycommons.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Mass History Commons REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210402T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210402T143000 DTSTAMP:20210403T220806Z CREATED:20210227T180941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210403T220806Z UID:3619-1617368400-1617373800@masshistorycommons.org SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: 12 months and counting of COVID DESCRIPTION:Twelve Months and Counting of COVID-19\n \nApril 2\, 2021\, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nA conversation with Natalie Richards\, Adult Education Coordinator at Storrowtown Village Museum\, and Kate Boylan\, the Director of Archives and Digital Initiatives at Wheaton College \nIt’s been one long year of ups and downs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are still wearing our masks and social distancing while anxiously awaiting vaccines and wondering about a “new normal.” After all this time\, how are you doing? How is it affecting your organization? Are you open? What are you planning for the summer? What are your challenges in staffing\, engaging visitors\, and the bottom line? Join us for a peer to peer conversation about COVID-19 and the public and local history field in Massachusetts. This conversation will be moderated by Brianne Zulkiewicz\, Visitor Services and Administrative Coordinator at Wistariahurst Museum. \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE! \nThis Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Natalie Richards is the Adult Education Coordinator at Storrowton Village Museum. She has previously worked as a Collections Intern and the Archivist & Historian prior to this role. Natalie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in the History of Art & Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, and has worked in Collections\, Curation\, Education\, and Visitor Services at numerous museums throughout the Pioneer Valley including the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art\, the University Museum of Contemporary Art\, and the Springfield Museums.\n \n \n \n \n \n Kate Boylan is director of archives and digital initiatives in Wheaton’s Madeleine Clark Wallace Library. She oversees the library’s strategic development\, maintenance\, preservation and curation of historical\, special\, and digital collections. Boylan partners with faculty\, students and staff to identify materials to cultivate internal and external interdisciplinary partnerships for resource acquisition and sharing\, as well as for collaborative scholarship and teaching. Boylan serves as the administrator of the Wheaton College Digital Repository\, and JSTOR Forum collections\, serving as liaison and support staff for many academic and institutional digital initiatives. She was previously the digital archivist at Facing History and Ourselves\, Inc. in Brookline\, Mass. She holds an MLIS from Simmons College\, and is also a Wheaton College alumna.\n \n \n \n \n \n Brianne Zulkiewicz is the Visitor Services and Administrative Coordinator at Wistariahurst Museum and serves as an associate board member for Pioneer Valley History Network. She is on track to graduate with her master’s in Public History at Central Connecticut State University in May 2021.\n \n \n\nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org \n\nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good. URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/conversations-on-the-commons-12-months-and-counting/ LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Conversations on the Commons (events) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://masshistorycommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/COTC-April-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Mass History Alliance":MAILTO:commons@masshistoryalliance.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T143000 DTSTAMP:20210409T013515Z CREATED:20210227T181157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210409T013515Z UID:3621-1618578000-1618583400@masshistorycommons.org SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: Take it outside! DESCRIPTION:Take it Outside: Summer 2021 and outdoor programming \nApril 16\, 2021\, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nA conversation with Kate Bibeau\, Engagement Manager\, The Trustees \, and Thom Roach\, Director of Interpretation and Programs\, Gore Place \nTake it outside! 2021 is the year of the garden as many cultural institutions try to adjust their programming and exhibitions to provide safe and engaging experiences to their patrons. What outdoor activities are you planning this summer? How are you adjusting your usual programming to COVID-19? What exciting new things are you planning? Walking tours\, bike tours\, gardens\, outdoor exhibits\, fire pits…tell us when you’re going outside and what you’re going to do there. Join moderator Penni Martorell\, curator of collections at Wistariahurst Museum\, and colleagues from across the state to share your challenges and successes. \nRegistration is free. REGISTER NOW! \nThis Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Penni Martorell is curator of collections at Wistariahurst Museum and Holyoke’s City Historian. Martorell’s work at Wistariahurst includes managing and preserving collections and archive\, organizing history exhibits and lectures; providing opportunities for community organizations\, college classes\, school groups and the public to engage with local history through presentations and workshops. She lectures on Holyoke’s industrial history\, local textile and paper industries\, and women history makers. She has lead workshops on preserving heirlooms\, basic textile preservation and is an oral history trainer. Martorell served 5 years on the State Historic Records Advisory Board and has served 6 years as Vice President of The Pioneer Valley History Network. Her passion is book and printing history.\n \n \n \n \n \n Thom Roach has worked at Gore Place\, the historic house museum and estate in Waltham\, Massachusetts\, for more than twenty-five years\, where he serves as Director of Interpretation and Programs.\n \n \n \n \n \n Kate Bibeau manages public programming and events for The Trustees at their properties in the Merrimack Valley\, including Ward Reservation\, Weir Hill\, Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens and newly added last year\, Mary Cummings Park. Her love of everything outdoors combined with a BA in History from Providence College and an MA in Museum Studies from Harvard Extension School led to this role of Engagement Manager\, allowing her to be a perpetual student and teacher at the intersection of nature and culture. Before working for The Trustees\, Kate ran public programming for the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester. On days off you’ll find her outside with her husband and dog\, probably at another Trustees property or the beach.\n \n \n\nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org \n\nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good. URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/conversations-on-the-commons-outdoor-summer/ LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Conversations on the Commons (events) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masshistorycommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cotc-featured-20210416.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mass History Alliance":MAILTO:commons@masshistoryalliance.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210430T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210430T143000 DTSTAMP:20210422T225523Z CREATED:20210411T161235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T225523Z UID:3810-1619787600-1619793000@masshistorycommons.org SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: See You Online! DESCRIPTION:See You Online! Acing the virtual conference\n \nApril 30\, 2021\, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nConferences and meetings are in full virtual swing! Here at the Mass History Alliance\, we’re in the midst of making sure this year’s Mass History Conference on June 7th will be a smashing success. Join MHA’s IT pundit Matt Friedman and Susan Grabski\, executive director of the Lawrence History Center (Virtual Community Symposium: Public Safety in Lawrence on MAY 1!) for a chat about the do’s and don’ts of virtual conferencing. We’ll have a look behind the scenes as we share what we’re working on and how we’re meeting the opportunities and challenges of organizing an interactive virtual event. \nHave you attended or organized a virtual conference? What worked\, and what didn’t? Share your experiences\, questions\, and observations as we discuss the fun (and occasionally frustrating!) features of virtual conferencing\, for the benefit of us all! \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE! \nThis Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n In addition to being the MHA’s technology guy\, Matthew Friedman is the editor of The Typescript\, as well as a writer\, filmmaker\, and a historian of modernism and of Diaspora Jewish life. He has taught at Rutgers University\, Dominican University\, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Friedman is currently at work on a study of the relationship between the State of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora since 1948. He has worked as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\, the Montreal Gazette\, The National Post\, Wired News\, and InternetWeek.\n \n \n \n \n \n Susan Grabski\, M.Ed.\, has been executive director of the Lawrence History Center (LHC) since 2011. She serves as a member of the MA State Historical Records Advisory Board\, as a member of the Friends of the Lawrence Heritage State Park Board\, and is a Commissioner for the Essex National Heritage Area. In 2013\, she co-authored Lawrence\, Massachusetts and the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike with UMass Lowell History Professor Robert Forrant and co-curated the LHC online exhibition\, Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence\, Massachusetts\, that Changed Labor History\, which is included among other stories of national significance on the Digital Public Library of America.\n \n \n\nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org \n\nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good. 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