Hi John
I notified the site administrator.
If this happens again, you can use the "report an issue" link at the very bottom of the page, on this site, or on the Salem History Common too (also a ning platform) to notify the site admin. (on the SHS Common that's me; here on MA Studies, it's Joanne)
I'll keep an eye out for this gal. Usually these gate-crashers simply do this to every site in a system.
I'm not sure if I answered you or not, but we do plan on offering the Save Your Collection workshop again next year. For more information, visit our website at www.nemanet.org.
The Save Your Collection workshop is an overview of museum operations, covering everthing from becoming a 501.c3 to caring for collection records, to developing education programs, to fundraising. It is two days and costs $35 including lunch. Depending on where you are with your project, it may or may not be suited to your needs. If you are mostly researching, than it may be a bit premature to take this course. However, I would be happy to send you a flyer, either by email or snail mail. Just let me know!!
Hi John. Nice to meet you (if only virtually). I'm familiar with Ran Blake -- no relation, I assume, to the Blake family of Brookline that I've written about. I saw him perform at Brookline High a year or two ago and at least once before that, many years back.
Seeing your interest in Appalachian instruments, I wonder if you knew Allen Smith. Allen, who died last year, was one of my library school teachers at Simmons. He did a lot of work on Appalachian dulcimers. I used to love his stories about driving around in his van with recording equipment, tracking down specific examples of instruments he'd heard about. He put information about the instruments all together in a book that Simmons has, though I don't know what happened to the recordings.
Hi John,
Nice to meet you. I assume that since you are in Waltham now you are aware of the Waltham Historical Society. They have lots of nice people that can fill in the blanks about Waltham. I on the other hand live next door in Watertown and as such am very involved in the Historical Society of Watertown working as a volunteer maintaining the Edmund Fowle House and Museum. This museum is the place where the Executive Council of the Provincial Congress met at the outbreak of the American Revolution and were the beginnings of our government got its start. It is located at 28 Marshall St. in Watertown and is open for public tours on the third Sunday of the month from 1-4 PM. The museum was just open to the public last May after being fully restored and preserved over the previous 3 years. I use the home as my "club house" and am involved in numerous reenactment groups around New England that take my all over the world at various times in the past 35 years. I think if you want to get together and hear about reenacting the Edmund Fowle House is the best place to start. Check out our website HistoricWatertown.org and you will get more information about me and the Museum.
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I notified the site administrator.
If this happens again, you can use the "report an issue" link at the very bottom of the page, on this site, or on the Salem History Common too (also a ning platform) to notify the site admin. (on the SHS Common that's me; here on MA Studies, it's Joanne)
I'll keep an eye out for this gal. Usually these gate-crashers simply do this to every site in a system.
Thanks John
I'm not sure if I answered you or not, but we do plan on offering the Save Your Collection workshop again next year. For more information, visit our website at www.nemanet.org.
Best, BJ
The Save Your Collection workshop is an overview of museum operations, covering everthing from becoming a 501.c3 to caring for collection records, to developing education programs, to fundraising. It is two days and costs $35 including lunch. Depending on where you are with your project, it may or may not be suited to your needs. If you are mostly researching, than it may be a bit premature to take this course. However, I would be happy to send you a flyer, either by email or snail mail. Just let me know!!
Seeing your interest in Appalachian instruments, I wonder if you knew Allen Smith. Allen, who died last year, was one of my library school teachers at Simmons. He did a lot of work on Appalachian dulcimers. I used to love his stories about driving around in his van with recording equipment, tracking down specific examples of instruments he'd heard about. He put information about the instruments all together in a book that Simmons has, though I don't know what happened to the recordings.
- Ken
Nice to meet you. I assume that since you are in Waltham now you are aware of the Waltham Historical Society. They have lots of nice people that can fill in the blanks about Waltham. I on the other hand live next door in Watertown and as such am very involved in the Historical Society of Watertown working as a volunteer maintaining the Edmund Fowle House and Museum. This museum is the place where the Executive Council of the Provincial Congress met at the outbreak of the American Revolution and were the beginnings of our government got its start. It is located at 28 Marshall St. in Watertown and is open for public tours on the third Sunday of the month from 1-4 PM. The museum was just open to the public last May after being fully restored and preserved over the previous 3 years. I use the home as my "club house" and am involved in numerous reenactment groups around New England that take my all over the world at various times in the past 35 years. I think if you want to get together and hear about reenacting the Edmund Fowle House is the best place to start. Check out our website HistoricWatertown.org and you will get more information about me and the Museum.
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