>Historic Deerfield, a museum  of New England history and art, is now
>accepting applications for the 1999 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 application deadline is April 1, and the 1999
>program will run from Monday, June 14 to Saturday, August 14.
>
>The Summer Fellows participate in seminar sessions in a classroom setting,
>on walking tours, and in the museum houses themselves.  Topics covered
>include early American architecture, masterpieces of New England furniture,
>ceramics in early New England life, the art and craft of gravestone
>carving, 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 interpretation of historic sites.
>
>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.  This summer's lecture series, "Useful Improvements,
>Innumerable Temptations: The American Pursuit of Refinement," will feature
>Gretchen Townsend Buggeln, Assistant Professor in the Winterthur Program,
>Cary Carson, Vice President for Research at Colonial Williamsburg, and
>Kevin Sweeney, Associate Professor of History at Amherst College.
>
>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
>American history and art.
>
>Each Fellow works on an individual research project, utilizing the
>manuscript, printed, and artifact collections at Historic Deerfield and the
>Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.  The research topics 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 articles.
>
>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 in Delaware.
>At each stop the Fellows meets with museum staff members for in-depth
>presentations and discussions about the museum, its collections, and its
>interpretive philosophy.
>
>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 the end of 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 $300.
>
>For application forms and further information, contact:
>
>Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe
>Director of Academic Programs
>Historic Deerfield, Inc.
>Deerfield, MA 01342
>413-774-5581
>
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>To learn more about the program, visit:
>
>www.deerfield-fellowship.org
>
>To learn more about Historic Deerfield, visit:
>
>www.historic-deerfield.org
>
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>Date:         Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:57:16 EST
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>Subject:      1999 Summer Fellowship Program
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