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Bridging the By and Present
Bridging the Past and Nowadays
During the summer of 2021, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum presented Bridging the By and Present, a serial of virtual conversations with five scholars on the history of Hadley and the Porter-Phelps-Huntington family unit. All of these talks were costless and open to the public, made possible by a grant from the Span Street Fund, a special initiative of Mass Humanities to enable open access to local history.
Yous can watch recordings of by talks below!
Entangled Lives: A Chat on Women and Work at the PPH House in the Past and Present
with Marla Miller
June 16, 2021
Boot off the serial on June 16 will be Entangled Lives: A Conversation on Women and Work at the PPH House in the By and the Present, a conversation with Professor Marla R. Miller, author of Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts, and Karen Sánchez-Eppler. Miller is a Academy of Massachusetts Professor of History and Director of the Public History Plan. Professor Miller has researched early American women's labor for nearly thirty years, producing a notable body of work including several books and more than than a dozen articles. Her volume Betsy Ross and the Making of America (Holt 2010)—a scholarly biography of that early American craftswoman—was a finalist for the Cundill Prize in History at McGill University, the earth's largest non-fiction historical literature prize. It was also named to the Washington Post's "All-time of 2010" listing, one of the many awards and accolades Professor Miller's extensive work has received. Her research highlights the experiences of Black, Native American, and white women in pre-industrialization Hadley, and she has recently come to study the function of "by keepers" such as authors, museum-makers, and archivists in preserving and interpreting history. Karen Sánchez-Eppler, a Professor of American Studies and English language, will talk with Professor Miller about her research and methods, cartoon connections with how women'southward lives continue to entangle today.
Check out Marla's "Postcards of an Imagined America" hither: https://www.pphmuseum.org/marla-miller
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Schoolhouse Messages: Pedagogy with the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family unit Papers
with Karen Sánchez-Eppler
July 7, 2021
The second talk in the series will exist School Letters: Instruction with the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family unit Papers, presented by Professor Karen Sánchez-Eppler on July 7. During the mid-nineteenth century as the 11 Huntington children moved away from home, for school and visits, and later for work and marriage, they wrote letters home. Commencement year students at Amherst Higher accept worked each fall to transcribe and annotate these letters, creating a digital annal of family unit relations as many of them learn to live away from abode themselves. Sánchez-Eppler will share some of what this project has discovered near family unit life in mid-nineteenth century Hadley, and about the allure and challenges of archival work for contemporary students.
https://www.ats.amherst.edu/globalvalley/exhibits/show/pph-papers
Sánchez-Eppler is an Amherst Higher Professor of American Studies and English who researches nineteenth century American literature and culture. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (California, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Civilisation (Chicago, 2005), co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson (Oxford, in press) and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.
Clifton Johnson: A Search for the Heart of America: Pic and Lecture
with William Hosley
July 28, 2021
The next talk in the series will exist Clifton Johnson: A Search for the Heart of America: Picture Show and Lecture by William Hosley on July 28. "Writer, Traveler, Historian, Editor and Illustrator, Farmer, Lover of Nature, Skilful and Generous Denizen" is how his gravestone describes Clifton Johnson (1865-1940) – who was foremost ane of the groovy documentary photographers of his generations- and a museum maker. This talk is the story of this son of old Hadley, Massachusetts.
https://world wide web.pphmuseum.org/clifton-johnson-photography
William Hosley is a cultural resource evolution consultant, historian, writer, and photographer. He was formerly Director of the New Haven Museum and Connecticut Landmarks, Curator and exhibition developer at Wadsworth Atheneum, and organized major exhibitions including The Slap-up River: Art & Society of the Connecticut Valley (1985), The Japan Idea: Art and Life in Victorian America (1990), and Sam & Elizabeth: Fable and Legacy of Colt'south Empire (1996). As an expert in heritage tourism, Hosley has studied, lectured and advised museums and heritage destinations around the country and has served as a content specialist for PBS, BBC and CPTV film documentaries.
The Porter-Phelps Huntingon Museum's summer 2021 programs are funded, in part, by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a land Bureau; the Amherst Cultural Councils, local agencies, supported past the Massachusetts Cultural Council; Mass Humanities Span Street Fund; Easthampton Savings Bank, Gage-Wiley & Co. and with the generous support of many local businesses and the public.
A Wind that Rose: Susan Phelps and Emily Dickinson
with Anna Plummer
August 5, 2021
The penultimate talk in the series will be A Wind that Rose: Susan Phelps and Emily Dickinson, held on August 5th. During this presentation, Anna Plummer volition talk over findings from her historic and creative research paper which delves into the life of Emily Dickinson's friend and member of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington family unit, Susan Davis Phelps (1827-1865). Phelps allegedly died "of a broken middle", merely her legacy in the PPH collections and local archives reveals a more nuanced story framed by the lively social scene at Amherst College and a rural 19th-century family'south struggle with loss and mental affliction. Most notably, the friendship between Phelps and Dickinson brings new depth to some of the poet'southward writing known effectually the earth today.
Anna Plummer earned her B.A. in English and Theater & Trip the light fantastic from Amherst College in 2020 and is an emerging public history professional person and creative. She is a tour guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum, nearly recently assisting in the evolution of museum virtual programming. She interned at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum during the summer of 2019, where her marvel virtually Susan Phelps starting time sparked. Here is a link to a mail where yous can read more on the subject: https://www.pphmuseum.org/susanphelps
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The Province of Disease: Illness and the Making of Early New England
with Ben Mutschler
Baronial 18, 2021
Long before Covid, Americans wrestled with the severe disruptions that illness presented in daily life. This session turns our attending to the social and political implications of sickness in early America, featuring Ben Mutschler in chat with Robert Gross nearly Mutschler'south new book, The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England (Chicago, 2020). Their discussion will explore the means in which the routine presence of affliction in everyday life shaped and strained the near bones institutions of eighteenth-century New England, from families and households, to neighborhoods and towns, all the mode to the highest reaches of regime. The early modern world suggests ready comparisons with our own -- enduring issues that were accommodated in means both strange and familiar.
Ben Mutschler is Associate Professor of History at Oregon Land Academy, where he teaches courses on early America. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and has received long-term fellowships from the Omohundro Institute and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He is currently undertaking a new book project that explores the means in which discussions of citizenship in the era of the American Revolution engaged questions of ability and inability. What qualities of body, listen, and temperament separated the monarchical subject from the new republican citizen?
A social and cultural historian focusing on New England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Robert A. Gross is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early on American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. His first volume, The Minutemen and Their Globe (1976) received the Bancroft Prize for 1977; it was re-issued in a 25th anniversary edition in 2001 and will appear in a new, revised edition in 2022 to mark the 250th ceremony of the American Revolution. His latest book, The Transcendentalists and Their World continues his exploration of Concord, Massachusetts, into the era of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It volition be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in November 2021.
Source: https://www.pphmuseum.org/bridging