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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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