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Working Together for Better Preparedness: Developing
<br /> Cooperative Disaster Networks These events are not included in the annual meeting registra-
<br /> As emergency planning systems have grown more sophisti tion fee and require preregistration.See the registration form for
<br /> cated, museums and historic sites are challenged to develop more details.
<br /> effective responses to large disasters.This session will discuss
<br /> the importance of forming networks for response and training, 1:30-5:30 pm
<br /> provide tips for starting new networks,and offer suggestions for
<br /> fostering relationships with emergency management personnel. Discovering Our Histories One Story at a Time
<br /> Chair: Dyani Feige, Preservation Specialist,Conservation Center for Art COST:$30
<br /> and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA
<br /> When a story is recorded using easy-to-learn, best practices
<br /> from the Oral History Association, life is breathed into the past.
<br /> JORKSHOP Learn how to collect,archive,and use priceless stories about
<br /> your community history with take-home templates and experi-
<br /> These events are not included in the annual meeting registra- ence hands-on training in one of the nation's only mobile oral
<br /> tion fee and require preregistration.See the registration form for history trailers.
<br /> more details. Chair: Kathleen Klehr, Executive Director, Scott County Historical
<br /> Society, Shakopee, MN
<br /> 1:30-5:30 pm
<br /> "Everything is a Bicycle:" Advocacy, Collaboration, and
<br /> B&B's Revealed: Innkeepers' Secrets Interpretation on Two Wheels
<br /> COST:$45 COST:$30
<br /> Thinking of opening your historic home to paying guests?Learn Bicycles can help transport your mission into the community.
<br /> the trials of operating and tribulations of renovating and main- Learn how a recent exhibit, book,and bicycle tour created
<br /> taining a historic inn through visits to an 1896 Victorian era new partnerships and contributed to contemporary bicycle
<br /> house,a 1915 Craftsman overlooking Como Lake,and a former advocacy. Pedal along on a six-mile bicycle tour of local cycling
<br /> towboat on the Mississippi River. history with stops at landmarks,the Minnesota History Center,
<br /> Chair: Michael Koop, Historic Preservation Program Specialist,State and Great Waters Brewery. Bicycles will be available for rent for
<br /> Historic Preservation Office, Minnesota Historical Society. St. Paul, MN
<br /> those who do not have them.
<br /> Chair: Nicholas J. Hoffman,Chief Curator, History Museum at the
<br /> Beyond the Butter Churn: Reinventing Foodways and Castle, Appleton,WI
<br /> Farm Interpretation
<br /> COST:$45 History Matters! Advocacy Lab
<br /> Enthusiasm for local food and sustainable agriculture presents COST:$30
<br /> challenging ways for historic sites to reach new audiences and We know that history matters for our daily lives and for our larger
<br /> partners. In this workshop,develop historically-grounded strate- society and economy, but how do we translate that into action to
<br /> gies for engaging with local food networks, revising antiquarian make funding and good public policy actually happen?This lab,
<br /> approaches,and asserting the value of historical knowledge in held at the Minnesota State Capitol and St. Paul City Hall,will
<br /> reinventing contemporary food systems. explore practical ways that staff and volunteers,at all levels of
<br /> Chair: Michelle Moon, Assistant Director of Adult Programs, Peabody an organization,can get involved to make a difference.
<br /> Essex Museum, Salem, MA Chair: David Kelliher, Director of Public
<br /> Policy and Community Relations, Minnesota
<br /> Historical Society, St.Paul, MN
<br /> Can You Hear Me Now? Connecting
<br /> to Visitors through Real Stories of „'
<br /> Artifacts and Place Pocket Change: Moving a House
<br /> Cost: $45 , Museum into the 21st-Century on
<br /> :"» 4 < ':}�_ a Budget
<br /> Do you want to use artifacts to tell °i .
<br /> compelling stories?Are there difficult COST:$30
<br /> issues within your community you would r I The Ramsey Redevelopment Project
<br /> like to address?Do you want to be a charged the Alexander Ramsey House
<br /> better storyteller so that your history z; • with making meaningful change on a
<br /> organization is more relevant to your w' budget. Participants will become a part
<br /> visitors and your community?Then this of the process by brainstorming ideas
<br /> workshop is for you. to continue this work—ideas that must
<br /> Chair: Scott Carrlee,Curator of Museum 1 cost less than$200.Join us for an exer
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<br /> Seryices,Alaska State Museum,Juneau,AK cise in creative problem-solving where
<br /> inspiration meets reality.
<br /> Chair:Jayne Becker,Site Manager,Alexander
<br /> William G. LeDuc House Ramsey House, St. Paul, MN
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