Please post: CALL FOR PAPARES "The Gothic Revival in New England" The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities 1996 Abbott Lowell Cummings Symposium on Material Life The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities is requesting proposals for papers to be presented at the 1996 Abbott Lowell Cummings Symposium on Material Life, "The Gothic Revival in New England". The day-long symposium will be held on Saturday, November 16, 1996, at the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts. Papers can explore the origins, practice, practitioners, and clients of the Gothic Revival in America, with particular focus on New England, and on the intellectual and material expressions of the Gothic Revival in landscape design, architecture and the decorative arts. Proposals of 500 words or less for a 30-minute presentation should be sent by April 1, 1996 to Myron Stachiw, SPNEA, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114 (fax: 617-227-9204)