Author: Museum of American Frontier CulturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Museum of American Frontier Culture
Author: Museum of American Frontier CulturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton, Virginia
Author: Museum of American Frontier CulturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Museum of American Frontier Culture, Staunton, Virginia
Author: American Frontier Culture FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Revolutionary War Battle in Staunton
Author: Museum of American Frontier CulturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Guidebook
Author: Katharine L. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Interpretation Training Manual for the Frontier Culture Museum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia is an outdoor living history museum that uses costumed interpreters to tell visitors about their major themes. By understanding that the Museum seeks to talk about the daily lives of people from West Africa, England, Ireland, and Germany; their immigration experience to America; and how these people interacted with each other and Native American groups to form an American culture, interpreters can pass on this information to visitors. Interpretation, as a bridge between the historical information and the visitor, is a conversation between the interpreter and the visitor where the interpreter can use a variety of techniques to make the objects, ideas, and sites have meaning. By following the two C's and understanding the ART of interpretation, the staff at the Museum can more effectively communicate with visitors. One of the biggest challenges for interpreters is to clearly distill all the historical information for visitors without dumbing or watering down the information.This manual compiles current scholarly on interpretation and 200 years of history for the five countries represented at the Museum. With the help of Museum staff, this Manual contains the best and most recent information for the training of future and present interpreters. Interpreters reading this manual should come away understanding the history of the Museum, the meaning of interpretation, how to practice interpretation, the content information about each of the exhibit sites, and how the major themes of the Museum can be communicated at each exhibit.
The Southern Colonial Backcountry
Author: David Colin CrassPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572330191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book brings a variety of fresh perspectives to bear on the diverse people and settlements of the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century southern backcountry. Reflecting the growth of interdisciplinary studies in addressing the backcountry, the volume specifically points to the use of history, archaeology, geography, and material culture studies in examining communities on the southern frontier. Through a series of case studies and overviews, the contributors use cross-disciplinary analysis to look at community formation and maintenance in the backcountry areas of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. These essays demonstrate how various combinations of research strategies, conceptual frameworks, and data can afford a new look at a geographical area and its settlement. The contributors offer views on the evolution of backcountry communities by addressing such topics as migration, kinship, public institutions, transportation and communications networks, land markets and real estate claims, and the role of agricultural development in the emergence of a regional economy. In their discussions of individuals in the backcountry, they also explore the multiracial and multiethnic character of southern frontier society. Yielding new insights unlikely to emerge under a single disciplinary analysis, The Southern Colonial Backcountry is a unique volume that highlights the need for interdisciplinary approaches to the backcountry while identifying common research problems in the field. The Editors: David Colin Crass is the archaeological services unit manager at the Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Steven D. Smith is the head of the Cultural Resources Consulting Division of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Antrhopology. Martha A. Zierden is curator of historical archaeology at The Charleston Museum. Richard D. Brooks is the administrative manager of the Savannah River Archeological Research Program, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Antrhopology. The Contributors: Monica L. Beck, Edward Cashin, Charles H. Faulkner, Elizabeth Arnett Fields, Warren R. Hofstra, David C. Hsiung, Kenneth E. Lewis, Donald W. Linebaugh, Turk McCleskey, Robert D. Mitchell, Michael J. Puglisi, Daniel B. Thorp.
Ladies and Gentlemen on Display
Author: Charlene M. Boyer LewisPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813920801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Written as a dissertation in history at the U. of Virginia, this study recreates the societal mores displayed at summer resorts at Virginia Springs from 1790-1860, as this was recorded in the letters and other archives of families who sojourned there. Lewis (history, Widener U.) suggests that her history provides a new insight into plantation society by recording responses to unusual events and lack of routine. She supplements the account with some analysis of the sources for the romantic and idealistic views of this culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Viltis
Author: Colonial Food
Author: Ann ChandonnetPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747813795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony's most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare food in the harsh, unfamiliar climate of the New World. From the meager subsistence of the earliest days and the crucial help provided by Native Americans, to the first Thanksgiving celebrations and the increasingly sophisticated fare served in inns and taverns, this book provides a window onto daily life in Colonial America. It shows how European methods and cuisine were adapted to include native produce such as maize, potatoes, beans, peanuts and tomatoes, and features a section of authentic menus and recipes, including apple tansey and crab soup, which can be used to prepare your own colonial meals.