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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T133000 DTSTAMP:20220930T141849Z CREATED:20220927T214506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T141849Z UID:31044-1665144000-1665149400@masshistorycommons.org SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: Blogging History DESCRIPTION:Blogging History: Creating Rare and Valuable Internet Content \nOctober 7\, 2022\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. \nHistorical organizations are sitting on that rare and valuable beastie on the internet: interesting content. This makes blogging an attractive option for sharing local history\, showing what you have\, and exploring issues concerning history and society. On October 7\, 12:00-1:30 p.m.\, we will have a conversation with veteran history bloggers Elaine Clements of the Andover Center for History and Culture and History Buzz\, and Anthony Vaver of the Westborough Center for History and Culture at the Westborough Public Library (author of Westborough Center Pastimes) about their experiences. What do they write about? What do they NOT write about? Do they have one author or more? What kids of responses do they get? Do they repurpose information and blog posts? How often do you need to write/publish to make it successful? What are the advantages and disadvantages of different platforms? What are some of the do’s and don’ts of blog writing? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation and share your successes and the obstacles you have had to overcome in your blogging experiences! \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE!\n \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 Anthony Vaver directs the Westborough Center for History and Culture at the Westborough Public Library\, where he writes a monthly blog. Before taking this position\, he wrote and maintained the blog EarlyAmericanCrime.com and wrote two books about the topic.\n \n \n \n \n \n Elaine Clements has been Executive Director of the Andover Center for History and Culture (ACHC) since 2001. She has a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. Prior to ACHC\, Elaine worked with Historic New England and was the director of the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts in Madison\, NJ. Sharing local history stories has been a key part of Elaine’s work in museums. The pandemic opened opportunities to take local history research and writing to a new level.\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-blogging-history/ LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Conversations on the Commons (events) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masshistorycommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/COTC_featured_20221007.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mass History Alliance":MAILTO:commons@masshistoryalliance.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T133000 DTSTAMP:20221014T154543Z CREATED:20221014T150701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221014T154543Z UID:31049-1666353600-1666359000@masshistorycommons.org SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: Neutrality and Engagement for Historical Organizations DESCRIPTION:Neutrality and Engagement for Historical Organizations \nOctober 21\, 2022\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. \nMuseum people are talking a lot about whether their organizations should be politically “neutral” in their presentation and interpretation of history. But what is neutrality? Or what does it mean for museums and historical organizations to be engaged in the questions that confront us today\, such as diversity\, climate change\, or violence? How do organizations decide on their programming? Veteran museum directors Gloria Greis and Tom Putnam join us for a conversation that tackles the question of “neutrality” from a practical or process-oriented rather than prescriptive direction. How does a museum decide what exhibits or programs to present? How do you bring a variation of viewpoints into your work?  Do you consider the political import of what you are doing and how does that work? Do you get pressure and how do you deal with it? Who do you look to for examples of good work or best practices? What is your process of going from idea to reality? Join us and share your experiences! \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE.\n \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 Gloria Polizzotti Greis been Executive Director of the Needham History Center & Museum since June 2002. She has worked in museums since 1985. She has also taught both Anthropology and Museums Studies at the college level\, and had experience teaching in a museum setting with high school and elementary school classes. Dr Greis is a Needham resident. She holds a PhD in Anthropology\, specializing in the archaeology of prehistoric Europe. She is the author of two books on archaeology; a book and three films on local history; several articles on history\, archaeology and various other topics; and writes a weekly local history blog. She is Chair of the Needham Historical Commission\, sits on several municipal committees and nonprofit boards\, and is an elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.\n \n \n \n \n \n Tom Putnam is the former Executive Director of the Concord Museum and former Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. He served for eight years as a member of the board of directors of Mass Humanities\, the Commonwealth’s state humanities council including two years as Chair. A graduate of Bowdoin College and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University\, he was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow in Quebec\, Canada; a Fulbright Scholar in Senegal\, West Africa; and the recipient of a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. He began his career teaching history in a public high school in Maine. And for close to a decade\, he directed a federally funded Upward Bound program helping low-income high school students from throughout New England to be the first in their families to attend college.\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-neutrality-and-engagement-for-historical-organizations/ LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Conversations on the Commons (events) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masshistorycommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/neutrality-and-engagement-image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mass History Alliance":MAILTO:commons@masshistoryalliance.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T200000 DTSTAMP:20221019T024848Z CREATED:20221019T020636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T024848Z UID:31145-1666809000-1666814400@masshistorycommons.org SUMMARY:History Studio: Exploring Women's History Through Folksongs DESCRIPTION:A Silver Dagger: Exploring Women’s History Through Folksongs \nWednesday\, October 26\, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. \nPassed down for generations\, folk songs provide insights into the lives of ordinary people in centuries past. Diane Taraz mines these traditional songs for clues to the inner lives of people in Europe and America from about 1500 to 1850\, especially women. Women left few written records\, but we can learn much about them through the music that they used to speed their work\, lift their spirits\, or ease an aching heart. \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Steeped in history\, Diane Taraz creates programs that use the music of an era to show the inner lives of people who lived long ago. Women\, especially\, left behind few records of their existence\, but the songs they used to speed their work\, sing a child to sleep\, or ease an aching heart show us their minds and hearts. Diane is on the Scholarly Advisory Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History\, based in New York City\, and brings her programs to museums\, universities\, libraries\, and historic houses throughout New England. She is director of the Lexington Historical Society Colonial Singers\, for whom she has produced two CDs\, and her own two dozen recordings are enjoyed worldwide.\n \n \n\nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/history-studio-exploring-womens-history-through-folksongs/ LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:History Studio (events) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masshistorycommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/featured_hs_20221026.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Mass History Alliance":MAILTO:commons@masshistoryalliance.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR