The Shaping Role of Place in African American Biography
September 14-17 2006, MassachusettsCollege of Liberal Arts, North Adams
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Schedule:
Thursday, September 14,
7pm reception, slide lecture, publication celebration of 250-page Guide to African American Heritage in the UpperHousatonicValley. Gallery at 51 Main St, North Adams.
Friday September 15
8 am, Inaugural tour of African American Heritage Trail by motor coach
11am–2:30 pm: Sheffield Historical Society symposium with JoAnne Pope Melish, author of Disowning Slavery; Margaret Vetare, Director of Interpretation, Historic HudsonValley; South Berkshire residents Elaine Gunn and Wray Gunn
3:30 pm: Dedication of trail and its anchor site, the Col. Ashley House in Sheffield
7:30–9:00 pm: Margaret A. Hart Memorial Gospel Festival, MCLA Church Street Center
Saturday, 9/16,
9–10 am: Keynote Speaker: historian/biographer David Levering Lewis
10am – 5:45 pm: Sessions and speakers including Luncheon Speaker: Lucy Hurston, sociologist and author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
7:30–9 pm: Panel -- A Memorial for W.E.B. Du Bois: the Boyhood Homesite with Commentary by David Levering Lewis
Location of all Sat events: MCLA Church Street Center
Sunday, 9/17,
9am-noon, brunch, featured speaker: historian Mark Carnes, recognition of local teachers participating in African American Biography Curriculum Project. MCLA Church Street Center
Funded in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities “We the People” grant.
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CONFERENCE CO-DIRECTORS:
Frances Jones-Sneed, Ph.D., Professor of History,
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams,
MA 01247, (413) 662-5541, f.jones-sneed@mcla.edu
Richard Courage, Ph.D., Professor of English,
Westchester Community College/SUNY, Valhalla,
NY 10595, (914) 606-6106, racourage@hotmail.com
Rachel Fletcher, Co-Chairperson, Upper Housatonic
Valley African American Heritage Trail, 113 Division
Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230, (413) 528-3391,afamtrail@hotmail.com
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