the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
At long last, after much promotion, preparation, and hard work, the new website is live! Click here to give it a go. Thanks to the team that made it possible (Heidi Glatfelter Schlag, Blake Hayes, Matt Miller, and others) and who launched it a day before my birthday. An unintended outcome, I know, but I'll… Continue reading New Website is Live!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. For my family it is a time to gather together to express our thankfulness for the blessings of the last year and look with hope towards the future. It is a time of togetherness and comfort . . . and food. One thing I am personally thankful for, every year,… Continue reading I’m thankful for . . . Lobster and Crab Cakes and Poutine
Poultry flock inspection, blade sheep shearing, English formal gardens in America, heritage potatoes, preservation of period clothing, spinning and weaving, behaviorism applications for tourists . . . What a wonderfully eclectic mix of topics; articles about which are found in just two issues of the Bulletin, ALHFAM's quarterly journal. Every issue I receive has something… Continue reading Poultry to Period Clothing: The Bulletin
ALHFAM will be unveiling a new and greatly improved website soon. One of the advantages of the new site includes a Membership Management System (MMS). Our Communications team has been hard at work on this project and wants to make every member comfortable with the new site and system. To this end they've created very… Continue reading New Website Coming
The ALHFAM Historic Agriculture Resources Map is now live on the ALHFAM website. The map features information about ALHFAM members that have and/or use historic agricultural collections and techniques. This tool was created to help us share our historic agricultural assets with each other and the general public. The map is keyword searchable so if… Continue reading ALHFAM Historic Agriculture Resources Map
Recently, on the ALHFAM Facebook page and the discussion list (ALHFAM-L), members were asked, "Why ALHFAM?" Why do you join? Why do you renew? Why should others join? The answers so far are not surprising to me: the knowledge base of the members, the willingness to share that knowledge, and the overall congeniality of our… Continue reading Why ALHFAM?
It's always a treat to be able to explore the grounds of Colonial Williamsburg - there's so much to see! A somewhat new annual tradition (relatively speaking) is the annual plowing match. Ed Schultz had a great crew on hand to help those folks who wanted to participate: The highlight of the day for me… Continue reading Site Visit – Colonial Williamsburg
A great day of learning and seeing new things and old friends. For me (Derrick), one of the great things about the annual get together is the site visits and workshops on the day before the "official" conference starts. For me, I went along on the Civil War tour with two outstanding guides in Willie… Continue reading Pre conference workshops, seeing the alhfamily again
It has been a few years since the ALHFAM annual meeting has been held at Colonial Williamsburg but the 2015 edition formally starts today with site visits and pre conference workshops. We'll be updating as time allows!
I am very happy to let everyone know that the preliminary program and registration for the 2015 ALHFAM Annual Meeting in Williamsburg is now available via the ALHFAM website: http://alhfam.org/?cat_id=384&nav_tree=111,117,384 Please note the following: 1. The program is subject to change in terms of when specific sessions take place. We are still making adjustments to… Continue reading ALHFAM 2015 Annual Meeting & Conference Preliminary Program and Registration
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