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>Historic Deerfield, a museum  of New England history and art, announces
>the 1998 Summer Fellowship Program in Early American History and Material
>Culture.  Six to eight undergraduates from across the country will be
>chosen in April to spend nine weeks in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where
>they will discuss and research the documents and artifacts of early
>American history, and interpret Deerfield's history to the general public
>while studying other museums in New England and beyond.  The 1998 program
>will run from Monday, June 15 to Saturday, August 15.
>
>The Summer Fellows participate in seminar sessions in a classroom
>setting, on walking tours, and in the museum houses themselves.  Topics
>covered include American architecture, furniture, ceramics, silver,
>textiles, gravestone art, Native Americans in the Connecticut River
>Valley, the Puritan plain style sermon, the archaeological heritage of
>Deerfield, the Colonial Revival in New England, and the challenges of
>interpreting history to the general public.
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>The program is led by Kenneth Hafertepe, Director of Academic Programs at
>Historic Deerfield.  Other members of the staffs of Historic Deerfield
>and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association make presentations about
>their areas of academic expertise and about their role in the museum.
>
>Fellows also attend the Historic Deerfield Summer Lecture Series and
>other area lectures; in recent years Fellows have heard lectures in
>Deerfield from Richard Bushman of Columbia University , Richard Candee of
>Boston University, Barbara Carson of the College of William and Mary,
>James F. O'Gorman of Wellesley College, and Jules Prown of Yale
>University, as well as lectures elsewhere in the area from Laurel
>Thatcher Ulrich  of Harvard University and Sir Peter Thornton, formerly
>curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Sir John Soane's Museum.
>
>Each Fellow will give guided tours five afternoons in each of three
>historic houses, using information gathered in seminars and through
>sessions with Historic Deerfield's highly trained guiding staff.  Fellows
>thus have the opportunity to study the collections up close, to meet
>visitors from throughout the nation and around the world, and to
>interpret the American past.
>
>Each Fellow works on an individual research project, utilizing the
>manuscript, printed, and artifacts collections at Historic Deerfield and
>the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.  The research topics must deal
>with some aspect of the history or material culture of the Connecticut
>River valley or with objects in the Deerfield collections.  Many Summer
>Fellowship papers have become the basis for senior theses or for published.
>
>The Fellows go on weekly field trips to other museums of history and art
>in New England.  These include Old Sturbridge Village, Plimoth,
>Plantation, the historic city of Boston, and the Yale University Art
>Gallery.  At the end of the summer the Fellows make a week-long trip to
>the south, visiting Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and the Winterthur
>Museum on Delaware.  At each stop the Fellows meets with museum staff
>members for in-depth discussions of their interpretive philosophies.
>
>Many Fellows go on to leading graduate programs in history and museum
>studies, including the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, the
>Cooperstown Program in History Museum Studies, Boston University, the
>College of William and Mary, and the University of Pennsylvania.  They
>have gone on to hold positions at such institutions as the Amon Carter
>Museum, the Bennington Museum, Monticello, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, as
>well as positions at such academic institutions as Arizona State
>University, the University of Missouri, and the University of Pennsylvania.
>
>Historic Deerfield will accept between six and eight students who have
>completed two or more years of college and who are of undergraduate
>status as of January 1 of the year of the program.  Admission is by an
>application form which must be supported by an official transcript and by
>at least two letters of recommendation from college faculty members.
>There is a non-refundable application fee of $15, and applications must
>be completed by April 1.  Successful applicants will be notified by
>mid-April.
>
>The fellowship covers tuition, books, and field trip expenses.  Room and
>board for nine weeks will cost $1400.  Financial aid is available for
>students with demonstrated need.  Six hours credit is available through
>the History Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for
>approximately $200.
>
>For application forms and further information, contact Dr. Kenneth
>Hafertepe, Director of Academic Programs, by mail at Historic Deerfield,
>Inc., Deerfield, MA 01342, by telephone at 413-774-5581, or by e-mail at
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