Thanks for all the positive comments about Great Tours and interest in attending or hosting a workshop. Our next Great Tours workshop is at Gore Place in...
I am thinking of trying to plant an historic (pre-Civil War era) flower garden at the house this year; does anyone have a garden at their site, or suggestions...
THere are a number of resources one could use but I would recommend starting with the Ann Leighton series on American Gardens. Specifically "American Gardens...
Benjamin Haavik
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Feb 3, 2003 9:53 pm
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Thanks to everyone who answered me about historic flowers! I now have LOTS of titles to read. Sturbridge Village has several books for sale in their gift...
I scheduled a tour for a group of 3rd through 6th graders yesterday and the teacher mentioned that they were reading Freedom's Wings: Corey's Diary, Kentucky...
Susannah, You also may find some useful information in Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings Robin Rountree Riddick's Folly, Suffolk, VA ... From:...
riddicksfolly
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Feb 4, 2003 3:31 pm
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Thanks to everyone for their suggestions for historic flower sources. If I may, I'd like to add that--since gardens, grounds, furnishings, and collections of...
We have an historic garden and the Warner House on Constitution Island. It is still maintained along the lines described by Anna Warner in her popular book,...
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Remember, while 19th century garden books are a wonderful source for historic flower information, many of them deal with the time period AFTER the civil war...
Remember, while 19th century garden books are a wonderful source for historic flower information, many of them deal with the time period AFTER the civil war...
Hello everyone I am working on creating an annual checklist of maintenance needs and inspections that need to be done on our historic home. I am doing ok with...
I'd be interested in this information, too. Could it be posted to the list? Thanks! ... From: Tori Mason [mailto:grassmerefarm@...] Sent: Wednesday,...
Cristin Grant
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Feb 5, 2003 10:00 pm
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Dear Cristin, I sent an off list message to Tori Mason in response to her inquiry. Though its a bit dated - 1976 - a publication from the National Park...
These kinds of check lists (as well as examples of mission statements, etc.) just might be found in the MuseDoc archives. This was set up (in parallel to the...
Colleagues, AASLH has also compiled documents that will be made available to our members when our new, redesigned web site is launched within the next month....
Sounds like a great resource, but - I tried to click on files or photos and it was not a click-able location. Could it be there are no documents there yet?...
I just recently joined the MuseDocs group, after the mission/vision statement query I sent a week or two ago, and it is a great resource (thanks, Star!)....
Cristin Grant
cgrant@...
Feb 6, 2003 5:28 pm
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Hi all -- We are starting a dialogue with our local merchants association on how the cultural organizations in our community (we have 9 museums in a town of...
Well, I was automatically signed in, thanks to computer cookies. But I tried again, and found if I went back to the original historic house museums home page...
For all those wanting information on maintenance lists and all the other responsibilities of historic house stewardship watch for the upcoming National...
Hi Everybody!!! I am enjoying all your ideas and experiences. I think we can all learn something from these dialogues. One thing that has worked well for us...
What is the general attitude in the museum community on fixing broken historical items? We have two flax wheels which have pieces broken off and/or missing, a...
I, too, am interested in this prospect. Last fall we had a dining with history event that went over very well. We partnered with our downtown development...
... <starleen.meyer@f...> wrote: This was set up (in parallel to the very helpful MUSEUM-L list) so that museum professionals could share documentation. Is...
Ref: Repairing Broken Items: This question gets back to your museum or society's policy...what is the role of your museum and how do you go about achieving...
... In poking around the scholastic.com site I discovered that the books in the Dear America series have teacher's resource pages associated with them which...
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