Program in New England Studies
Monday, June 18 to Saturday, June 23, 2012
Historic New England presents the annual Program in New England Studies (PINES), an intensive learning experience with lectures by curators and architectural historians, workshops, and behind-the-scenes tours of Historic New England’s properties and collections, as well as of other museums and private homes in the region.
PINES examines New England history and material culture from the seventeenth century through the Colonial Revival, and delves into building design and technology, and the wide-ranging lifestyles illustrated by the historic sites on the itinerary. Lecturers include:
- Richard Candee, professor emeritus, Boston University
- Cary Carson, retired vice president of the research division at Colonial Williamsburg
- Abbott Lowell Cummings, former director, Historic New England
- James L. Garvin, state architectural historian, New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources
- J. Ritchie Garrison, director, Winterthur Program in Early American Material Culture, University of Delaware
- Brock Jobe, professor of decorative arts, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
- Dean Lahikainen, curator of American decorative arts, Peabody Essex Museum
- Jane C. Nylander, president emerita, Historic New England
- Richard C. Nylander, curator emeritus, Historic New England
- Robert Blair St. George, associate professor of history, University of Pennsylvania
- Gerald W. R. Ward, senior consulting curator and Katharine Lane Weems senior curator emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Richard Guy Wilson, chair, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Highlights this year include private tours of Historic New England properties in Greater Boston; Essex County, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; South Berwick, Maine; and Woodstock, Connecticut; workshops in furniture, ceramics, and textiles at Historic New England's Collections and Conservation Center in Haverhill, Massachusetts; a private tour of the Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with curator Gerald Ward; and a tour and reception of the Ayer Mansion in Boston, the country’s only surviving residence created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
PINES is designed to appeal to owners of historic houses, collectors, museum professionals, graduate students, and those who enjoy New England history, and is limited to twenty-five participants.
Call 617-994-6629 for more information or register online.
Itinerary for 2012 Program in New England Studies
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