Program in New England Studies announced for 2009

A good friend Ken Turino runs the Program in New England Studies, which is organized by Historic New England. The program sounds especially interesting this year. Here are the promotional materials and a schedule.

THE HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND

PROGRAM IN NEW ENGLAND STUDIES

Monday - Saturday, June 15 - 20, 2009

Monday, June 15 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MASSACHUSETTS BAY

9:30 am Breakfast/Registration at the Harrison Gray Otis House

10:00 Welcome and Orientation

10:15 Lecture: How Colonial New England Became Britain’s Pottery Barn

Cary Carson, Vice President, Research Division (retired) Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

11:30 Lecture: Seventeenth-Century Joinery at the River and the Bay

Phil Zea, President, Historic Deerfield, Inc.

12:30 pm Lunch: Boxed Lunch Provided

1:00 Leave for Saugus and Salem

Tour of Boardman House, Saugus, c. 1687, and

Tour of Gedney House, Salem, 1665,

Abbott Lowell Cummings, Former Director, Historic New England and Cary Carson

4:30 Return to Boston

6:00 Lecture/Reception

Lecture: America’s Kitchens

Nancy Carlisle, Curator, Historic New England

Tuesday, June 16 SEVENTEENTH/EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY: PISCATAQUA

7:45 am Depart Boston for Portsmouth, New Hampshire

9:00 Lecture: Eighteenth-Century Architecture

James L. Garvin, State Architectural Historian, New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources

10:30 Lecture: New England House and Home

Jane C. Nylander, Historic New England, President Emerita

12:00 pm Lunch at Langdon House, 1784

1:00 Tour: Governor Langdon House, 1784

Elizabeth Farish, Regional Site Manager

2:30 Tour: Warner House, Portsmouth, NH, c. 1716

Richard Candee, Professor Emeritus, American and New England Studies,

Boston University

3:15 Depart for Kittery Point, ME

3:45 Tour: Lady Pepperrell House, Kittery Point, ME, 1760

Joseph Cornish

4:45 Depart for Portsmouth

5:00 Reception at the home of Jane C. Nylander and Richard C. Nylander

6:30 Return to Boston

Wednesday, June 17 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY

Begin at the Harrison Gray Otis House

9:15am Lecture: The Height of Elegance or “Ridiculous, Twisted Merchandise?:” Materials, Style and Design in 18^th Century American Furniture

Joshua Lane, Curator of Furniture and Academic Programs, Historic Deerfield, Inc.

10:30 Tour of Otis House, 1796

Richard Nylander, Historic New England, Curator Emeritus

12:30 Box Lunch provided

1:15 Depart for Haverhill Collections and Conservation Center

2:30 Workshop/Tour at Haverhill Collections and Conservation Center

Joshua Lane, and Nancy Carlisle

5:00 Depart for Boston

6:30 Optional Walking Tour of Beacon Hill

Leah Walczak, Otis House Site Manager

Thursday, June 18 THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY

Begin at Harrison Gray Otis House

9:00 am Lecture: The Architecture and Landscape of Federal New England

J. Ritchie Garrison, Director, Winterthur Program in Early American Material Culture, University of Delaware

10:00 Lecture: Federal Furniture in New England

Thomas C. Michie, Senior Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

11:00 Depart Boston for Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.

12:00 pm Tour of Pierce Nichols House, Salem, MA

1:00 Lunch at the historic Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, MA

2:00 Tour: Gardner-Pingree House, Salem, MA, 1804

Dean Lahikainen, Curator of American Decorative Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

3:00 Tour /Free time at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

4:00 Return to Boston

5:00 Tour of Historic New England’s Library and Archives

Lorna Condon, Curator of Library and Archives, Historic New England

Friday, June 19 VICTORIAN ERA

8:00am Depart Otis for Woodstock, CT

10:00 Lecture: Wild and Colorful: American Victorian Architecture, 1840-1890

Richard Guy Wilson, Chair, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

11:00 Lecture: Victorian Furniture: Design Run Amok or Inspired Creativity?

Nancy Carlisle, Curator, Historic New England

12:00 pm Box Lunch at Roseland Cottage, provided

1:00 Tour: Roseland Cottage, 1846

Roseland Site Manager and Staff

2:30 Depart Woodstock, CT for Lincoln, MA

3:30 Tour: Historic New England’s Codman House

Richard Nylander and Ben Haavik

5:00 Return to Boston

6:00 Reception at the home of Nancy Carlisle

Saturday, June 20 COLONIAL REVIVAL

Begin at Harrison Gray Otis House

9:00am Lecture: Imagining Old-Time Domesticity: Colonial Revival Interiors and Furnishings

Cheryl Robertson, Independent Scholar, Museum Consultant, and Design Historian

10:00 Lecture: Creating a History for New England’s Architecture: The Colonial Revival from the Civil War to the First World War

Kevin D. Murphy, Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, New York

11:00 Depart Boston for Essex, Mass.

12:00 pm Box lunch provided

12:30 Tour: Cogswell’s Grant, 1728,

Richard C. Nylander, Curator Emeritus and Nancy C. Carlisle, Curator, Historic New England

2:00 Depart for Gloucester

2:30 Tour: Beauport, Sleeper McCann House, 1910

Richard C. Nylander and Nancy C. Carlisle

4:00 Reception on Beauport Terrace

5:30 Depart for Boston: End of Program