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Established in 1971, the
Upstate History Alliance is a non-profit service organization which provides
support, advice and training to historical societies, museums, historians,
archivists, and other cultural organizations in
New York.
UHA is continually developing resources to be used by
organizations in the state, and beyond. Some of these resources include:
- Online Courses
- Traveling
Exhibits
- Annual
Conference
- Museum Institute
at Sagamore
- Get Ready!, Get
Set!, and Go! Grants
- Hands-on
workshops
- Lending Library
- Listserve and
eNewsletter
- And more!
Becoming a member allows you
many benefits, such as significant discounts on workshops and events, access to
the UHA Listserve, and access to the extensive Lending Library. If you are
interested in becoming a member, please visit the UHA website at
www.upstatehistory.org for more information.
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GET READY!
GET SET!
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To Rochester for AASLH
UHA joins forces with the New York State Council on the Arts and the New
York Council for the Humanities to offer special Go! grants to encourage attendance at this year's AASLH Annual Meeting! The 2008
meeting of the American Association of State and Local History will be
held in Rochester, New York from September 9-12th. This is a tremendous
opportunity to have a national professional development event within
our state! These specialized Go! Grants will provide museum staff
members and volunteers the opportunity to expand their horizons by
participating in the AASLH Annual Meeting.
Organizations
may apply for travel grants of up to $750.
Applications for a Go! grant to attend the AASLH Annual Meeting must be postmarked by August 3, 2008. Applicants will be notified within 30 days of receipt.
To apply, complete the AASLH Annual Meeting Go! Grant Application downloadable here, and return it to the Upstate History Alliance, 11 Ford Avenue, Oneonta, NY 13820.The Upstate History Alliance administers NYSCA supported Grants
for Museum Advancement.
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UHA Award of Merit Winners
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UHA celebrated excellence in the regional history and museum
community with awards presented at the opening reception of the 2008 UHA/MANY Annual Conference.
The event was hosted by the Albany Institute of History and Art and serving as Master of Ceremonies was Kenneth Shefsiek, Director of the Geneva Historical Society and UHA Board Member. The award ceremony and gifts were sponsored by
Schuyler Mansion
State Historic Site
National Memorial Day Museum
Summer in the Finger Lakes
Collaborative Project
Volunteers of The W!ld Center
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
Certificate of Commendation Recipients
2007 Shipwrecks Exhibit and Speakers Series
Adirondack Attic History Project
North Tonawanda: The Lumber City -A publication produced by the North Tonawanda History Museum
Veterans Markers of Niagara County - Niagara County Historian's Office
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Thank You Conference Sponsors
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The 2008 UHA/MANY Conference in Albany was a tremendous
success on all accounts! This achievement was thanks in part to the support of our fantastic sponsors.
Archival Methods
235 Middle Road
Henrietta, NY
14467
Ph 866.877.7050
www.archivalmethods.com
Archives Partnership
Trust
Cultural Education
Center
Suite 9C49
Albany, NY
12230
Ph 518.473.7091
www.nysarchives.org
Associated Safetygroup Management
10 Dewey St.
Huntington, NY 11743
Ph
631.271.0041
Michael@safetygroups.net
Bags Unlimited
7 Canal Street
Rochester, NY 14608
Ph 800.767.2247
www.bagsunlimited.com
Cuadra Associates
11835 W. Olympic
Blvd., #855
Los Angeles, CA, 90064
Ph 310.478.0066
www.cuadra.com
The Farmers' Museum
PO Box 800
Cooperstown, NY
13326
Ph 607-547-1450
www.farmersmuseum.org
Gaylord Brothers
PO Box 4901
Syracuse, NY
13221
Ph 800-962-9580
www.gaylord.com
Guide by Cell
300 Beale Street #608
San Francisco, CA 94105
Ph 415 - 297-6677
www.guidebycell.com
Hadley Exhibits, Inc
1700 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York
14207
Ph 716-874-3666 x-3018
www.hadleyexhibits.com
The History Press
16 Front Street, suite 202
Salem, MA 01970
Ph 978-741-4200
www.historypress.net
The Hollinger Corporation
9401 Northeast
Drive
Fredericksburg, PA
22408
800.634.0491
www.hollingercorp.com
Hudson Microimaging
PO Box 640
Port Ewen, NY 12466
Ph 845.338.5785
www.hudsonmicroimaging.com
MasterPak
145 East 57th Street, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10022
Ph 800.922.5522
www.materpak-usa.com
MBA Design & Display Products
Corp.
35 E. Uwchlan
Avenue, Suite 318
Exton, PA 19341
Ph 800- 635-7386
www.mba-worldwide.com
Museum Search and Reference
45 Hardy Road
Londonberry, NH 03053
Ph 603.432.7929
www.museumsearchandreference.com
New York Council for the Humanities
150 Broadway, Suite 1700
New York, NY
10038
Ph 212.233.1131
www.nyhumanities.org
New York State Council on the Arts
175 Varick Street
New York, NY
10014-4604
Ph 212. 627.4455
www.nysca.org/public/home.cfm
New York State
Historical Association
PO Box 800
Cooperstown, NY
13326
Ph 607.547.1450
www.nysha.org
OnCell Systems, Inc
1160 D Pittsford-Victor Rd
Pittsford, NY 14534
Ph 585.419-9844
www.oncellsystems.com
Red's Plastic Fabricating
600 West Manlius Street
East Syracuse, NY
13057
Ph 315.434.9526
larryredsplastics@verizon.net
Riverhill
PO Box 232
Treadwell, NY
13846
Ph 607.829.3501
www.riverhillpartners.com
Spicer Art Conservation, LLC
305 Clap Road
Delmar, NY 12054
Ph 518.765.2142
www.spicerart.com
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Silent Auction Appreciation
Thank you to the donors to our 2008 Silent Auction.
Almonzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder Association
Amherst
Museum
Armory Massage Therapy
Big Springs Historical Society
Brookside
Museum
Buffalo & Erie County
Historical Societies
Columbia
County Historical Society
Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc
Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College
Fort
Ticonderoga
Friends of Historic Kingston
Geneva
Historical Society
Great Camp
Sagamore
Herschell
Carrousel Factory
Museum
History Phone
Holland
Land Office
Museum
Hollinger Corporation
Hudson
Microimaging
Joann Lindstrom
Kim Richards
Larry Weiss Associates
Marianne Bez
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation
Mount Vernon
Hotel Museum
Museum
of DisAbility
Museum
of Modern Art
National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum
National
Museum of American Indian
NY History Review
NYS OGS and NYSCORC
NYSHA
Old
Stone Fort
Museum
OnCell
One 20 Salon
Oneida
Community Mansion
House
Ontario
County Historical Society
Pruyn House
Pulaski Historical Society
Red's Plastic Fabricating
Richard Vang
Riverhill Partners
Seneca
Iroquois National
Museum
Slate
Valley Museum
Starlyn D'Angelo
SUNY Press
Syracuse
Sky Chiefs
Syracuse
Stage
The 1890 House
Museum
The Erie Canal
Museum
The Interactive Museum
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site
Time and the Valleys
Museum
Townsend & Co
Westlake
Conservators & others
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Museum Institute at Sagamore 
Rethinking professional practices
About this year's Institute
Interpretation
- the process of bringing about meaning, it's what museums do best, or is it?
What are the best ways to utilize our unique resources to engage visitors and
to inspire connectedness and relevance for our sites? This year's institute
will explore the challenges and creative solutions for Interpreting Historic
Spaces. Throughout the course of the Institute, we will uncover how thoughtful
consideration for the needs of our communities balanced with attention to the
physical and structural needs of our sites can lead to a sustainable and
relevant model for the future.
Participants will explore ways to tell their stories and engage their visitors through creative methods and practical applications. Experts will share their innovative thinking on interpretive planning and incorporating those plans, utilizing reader's theater, employing interpretive technology, interpreting contentious stories as well as hearing from museums that have heeded the call to relevance, going beyond traditional interpretive models to embrace new strategies.
Who should Attend
The Museum
Institute at Sagamore is open to individuals who are currently employed
or serve in a leadership position with a museum or museum service
organization.
The
2008 Institute is September 23-26, 2008. Acceptance to the Institute is
by application, which is due, postmarked, by July 25, 2008.
For more information about the 2008 Museum Institute at Sagamore visit the UHA website at www.upstatehistory.org or call 800-895-1648
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A Note from the Director
The Summer season has been a time for travel at UHA. Over the course of the past six weeks we have travelled from Potsdam to Buffalo, to Saratoga Springs and Canajoharie presenting workshops and talking with colleagues from museums, archives, libraries and historic sites.
These conversations have had a two-fold benefit as the summer also marks the beginning of our next round of Strategic Planning at UHA. We are fortunate to have an outstanding network of constituents across the state to call upon to share their ideas and voice the challenges they are facing to help us determine how we can best serve the field in the years ahead.
Be sure to take a look at this year's Museum Institute at Sagamore - it promises to be a inspirational event. Don't forget you can apply for a Go! grant to support your participation in this year's Institute. We hope to see you in our travels this summer and better yet to hear about what you have been up to.
Enjoy,
~Catherine Gilbert
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New Faces at UHA
The Upstate History Alliance is pleased to welcome Stephanie Lehner to our permanent staff.
Stephanie will serve as Program Coordinator and Regional Archivist for the South Central Region of DHP.
The following is a letter of introduction from Stephanie.
I am pleased to have this
opportunity to introduce myself to all of you. I am Stephanie Lehner, and I
will be serving as the new Program Coordinator and Regional Archivist here at
the Upstate History Alliance. I have already had the pleasure of meeting and
working with many of you over the course of the last year while I completed a
special projects internship with past Program Coordinator and Regional
Archivist Jenny Rosenzweig. Working with Jenny was a joy and I benefited
greatly from her experience and expertise as well as her wonderful personality.
Now that Jenny has moved on in her professional career, I am so lucky to have
the opportunity to continue working, in a full time capacity, here at UHA. I
hope to work closely with all of you and to assist you in any way I can through
programs, workshops, conference, site visits and phone calls. I also hope to
learn from, and be inspired by, all of the wonderful work your organizations do
in the field of museums, history, art, science, and community building.
I began my work in the field of
museums during my undergraduate studies at Ithaca College. There I had the
opportunity to intern in the education department at The History Center in
Tompkins County. The work I did there in exhibitions and programming inspired
me to pursue a career in the field, and in May of this year I completed my M.A.
in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. During my two
years in Cooperstown I had the wonderful opportunity to work with The Farmers'
Museum, the Fenimore Art Museum and New York State Historical Association,
Pathfinder Village, the Fort Plain Museum and the Upland Interpretive
Center.
In my first few weeks as Program
Coordinator for UHA and Regional Archivist for the South Central Region of the
Documentary Heritage Program, I have had the opportunity to travel to several
conferences in the state with UHA Executive Director Catherine Gilbert. On May
28, Catherine and I traveled to SUNY Potsdam to present two workshops
("Creating a Community History" and "Everything you Want to Know about
Digitization") at the New York Archives Conference. The next week we presented
our "Building Bridges: Making Historical Records Relevant in the Classroom"
workshop at the Conference on New York State History at Skidmore College in
Saratoga Springs. Then, on June 12 we
presented two workshops in coordination with the Council of Community Services
of New York State's Museum Board Empowerment Program in Canajoharie at the
Arkell Museum. Coming up I will be facilitating three site visits to historical
societies and libraries in the south central region, and I have begun planning
for an Archives Month workshop in October.
I hope to meet all of you in my
continued travels with UHA and hope that you will all take advantage of our
wonderful services. When I am not on the road, I am in the office Monday-Friday
from 8:30am to 4:30pm and I encourage you to call (800.895.1648) or to email
(Stephanie@upstatehistory.org) me any time.
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Summer Intern
Additionally, we welcome our new special
projects intern Jessica Auer. Jessica is a recent
graduate from Stetson University in Florida. She decided to come north for the
summer to work on a new traveling exhibit for UHA. Jessica is conducting research
for an upcoming exhibit on the impact of
economic change, deindustrialization, and revitalization in New York State. Jessica welcomes your stories or images on this theme in an effort to guarantee
that her thesis is accurate and representative. Please contact her with your suggestions at
intern@upstatehistory.org.
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Building Bridges: bridging the museum- classroom gap
On Thursday, June 5, Upstate History Alliance presented a
workshop at the Conference on New York State History at Skidmore College in
Saratoga Springs. Building Bridges: Making Historical Records Relevant in the Classroom
was designed to assist museum professionals in understanding NYS standards and
curriculum, and to provide them with examples of projects and programs already
in use. Workshop participants
developed program outlines for their own sites based on ideas generated by the
group.
Catherine Gilbert, UHA Executive Director, facilitated the day-long workshop featuring Kristi Fragnoli, Associate Professor at the College
of Saint Rose; Todd DeGarmo, Director of the Center for Folklife, History &
Cultural Programs at the Crandell Public Library; Janie Schwab, Executive
Director of the Dudley Observatory and Ruth Ellen
Berninger, Museum Education Specialist. Dr. Fragnoli utilized NYS social studies
standards to engage participants in an activity based on local historical
documents. Case studies included oral history, geography, photography, and
collaborative interdisciplinary projects for students from kindergarten through
high school.
New York State Historical Association, in collaboration with
the Archives Partnership Trust and the New York Council for the Humanities
sponsored the conference.
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Underground
Railroad Heritage Trail to offer Travel Grants to support attendance at this
year's AASLH Annual Meeting in Rochester
The Underground Railroad Heritage Trail Travel Grants will provide museum staff
members and volunteers, from URHT, sites the opportunity to expand their horizons by participating
in the American Association of State and Local History Annual Meeting.
Organizations may apply for travel
grants of up to $350. This Travel Grant can be used towards conference
registration fees, travel expenses and accommodation fees associated with
attendance at the 2008 AASLH Annual Meeting. For further information on the
AASLH Annual Meeting please visit: www.aaslh.org/anmeeting.htm
Applications for URHT Travel grants
to attend the AASLH Annual Meeting must be postmarked by August 3, 2008. Applicants will be notified
within 30 days of receipt. To apply, contact Catherine Gilbert director@upstatehistory.org at the Upstate History Alliance for an application form.
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The Upstate History Alliance, with funding from the Documentary Heritage Program of New York State, offer two traveling exhibitions Respect for Diversity:Valuing Our Museums, Libraries and the Communities They Create and Why Archives Matter.
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UHA Dates to Remember
July 25, 2008
Postmark Deadline: Applications for the Museum Institute at Sagamore
August 3, 2008
Postmark Deadline: Go! Grants to attend AASLH & Underground Railroad Heritage Trail Travel Grants to attend AASLH
September 9-12, 2008
American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY
September 23-26, 2008
Museum Institute at Sagamore: Interpreting Historic Spaces - Visit our website for more information
October 1, 2008
Postmark Deadline: Get Set! Grant The goal of the GET SET!
grant is to provide your organization with access to professional ideas
and opinions, knowledge, and expertise not found in your institution.
These skills and new ideas will strengthen your organization and
increase your institution's level of professionalism.
October 23-24, 2008
Children's Museums of New York State Annual Meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY
October 31, 2008
South Central Region Archives Month Workshop, Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY
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UHA is supported in part by
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Photo Feature
The photo featured on our banner in this issue is of Sagamore Lake taken by Idelle Dillon. To learn how your photos can grace our pages in future issues, contact us at info@upstatehistory.org | |
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