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GS
holds an annual conference the fourth week in June. This conference,
held in a different location each year, features lectures,
demonstrations, exhibits, conservation and documentation workshops,
classroom sessions, slide presentations, and guided cemetery tours.
Our Thirtieth Anniversary Conference in Nashua New Hampshire was a
success! Please join us next year in Amherst, Massachusetts, June
17-22, 2008 at Hampshire College.
2008 Conference Logo-
Detail from headstone of
Jonathan Ingram,
Amherst, Massachusetts
Thirty-first Annual Conference
and Meeting
June 17-22, 2008
Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts
In June
2008, we will be meeting at Hampshire College, in the Pioneer Valley
region of Western Massachusetts, an area where one can view a
considerable variety of gravestone styles and materials within a
short drive of the conference site. Twenty years ago, we met at
Amherst College, just a few miles up the road from Hampshire.
For a virtual tour of the Hampshire College campus and environs,
please click on
www.hampshire.edu.
As usual, AGS will offer on-campus lodging and meals, lecture
sessions and other events at college facilities. For a guide
to other local attractions, click on
www.amherstarea.com.
Please click here for Historical Overview
Please click on the underlined links, below, for details on the
events listed.
More
information may be added in the coming months, so please check back
often.
June
18: Guided,
pre-conference motor coach tour, Historic Deerfield and the Franklin
County slate tradition -- includes a boxed lunch.
June
19:
Workshops at West Cemetery in Amherst (Conservation,
Photography)
and the Old Hadley Cemetery in nearby Hadley (Rubbing, Creating Foil
Impressions).
Keynote address: Dr. Alan
Swedlund, Professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst -- author of the forthcoming book, Shadow in
the Valley: A Cultural History of Illness, Death and Loss in New
England, 1840-1916, to be published by the University of
Massachusetts Press.
June
20: Choose
one of three guided motor coach tours
to selected Pioneer Valley
cemeteries -- includes a boxed lunch.
June
21: Select
from participation sessions on various aspects of gravestone and
cemetery studies.
Formal lectures
are scheduled for Thursday, Friday, Saturday evenings and Sunday
morning. The evening lectures are followed by a much more informal
gathering where conference participants are encouraged to share
their interests, photo images, and gravestone or cemetery-related
experiences.
Self-guided Tours (under construction)
For
those not planning to stay on campus, please go to
www.amherstarea.com, then click on lodging for a list of hotels,
motels and bed and breakfast establishments.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY -- the Amherst area is a very
popular destination.
New Lodging Option Available for Conference!
Conferees now have the option of staying in the dorm at Hampshire
College for one or more nights. To take advantage of this option,
please indicate the nights you would like to stay (Tuesday-Saturday
nights only). Lodging per night is $45.
Click here for Registration Form
Come
join us!
AGS Annual Conferences and Meetings
1978 Dublin School, Dublin, New Hampshire
1979 Salve Regina College, Newport Rhode Island
1980 Bradford College, Haverhill, Massachusetts
1981 University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
1982 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1983 Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts
1984 Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
1985 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1986 Pine Manor College, Brookline, Massachusetts
1987 Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
1988 Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1989 Governor Dummer Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts
1990 Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island
1991 Northfield-Mt. Herman, Gill, Massachusetts
1992 Union College, Schenectady, New York
1993 Connecticut College, New London Connecticut
1994 Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois
1995 Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts
1996 University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine
1997 Becker College, Leicester, Massachusetts
1998 Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey
1999 George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
and Reed College, Portland, Oregon
2000 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
2001 Pine Manor College, Brookline, Massachusetts
and San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
2002 Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia
2003 Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont
2004 Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut
2005 St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2006 Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
2007 Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire
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