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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2006
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2006

Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:30 am, Young Building

SESSION VIII:
DISPLAY AND GRIEF: THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF DEATH
8:30 - 10:15 am, Young Building
Moderator: Catherine W. Zipf
Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historic Preservation, Salve Regina University

Order in the Wilderness: The Making of an American Pilgrimage Shrine
Eva Fognell
Collections Manager of American Indian Art,
New York State Historical Association/Fenimore Art Museum

Commemoration in Glass: Three Memorial Window Projects by Frederic Crowninshield (1845-1918)
Gertrude de G. Wilmers, PhD
Independent Art Historian

The Detritus of Desire: The Monument, the Memento Mori and Materiality
Laura J. Miller
Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

SESSION IX:
CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL HISTORY: GENDER AND THE REINTERPRETATION OF THE PAST
10:30 - 12:15 am, Young Building
Moderator: Joyce Botehlo
Instructor, History Department, Salve Regina University

Whose Story in Stone? Women's Statues in Nineteenth-Century America
Eileen Eagan
Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Maine

The Aftermath of Sorrow: Southern White Women's Search for their Lost Cause,1860-1890
Karen A. Rubin
PhD Candidate, Florida State University

The Historical Fortunes of Jane Grey Swisshelm
Kathleen Gill
Professor, St. Cloud State University

TOUR OF THE JOHN STEVENS SHOPS
1:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from the Young Building
Additional Cost: $40.00

This optional tour of the John Stevens Shop, a historic stone carving  business established in 1705, will include a slide show on the shop’s  history, a discussion of the process of cutting inscriptions in  stone, an examination of the shop’s works in progress and significant  national monuments, and a tour of the nearby Island Cemetery, where  many historic pieces from the John Stevens Shop survive. Nicholas W. Benson, owner and creative director of the John Stevens Shop, Judith Dupré, author of the forthcoming publication, Monuments, and James C. Garman, Coordinator of the Cultural and Historic Preservation Program at Salve Regina University, will lead this exciting on-site experience. Participants will receive lunch as part of the tour and transportation to and from the shop and cemetery. The tour is limited to 25.

TOUR OF THE NEWPORT MANSIONS
1:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from the Young Building
Additional Cost: $40.00

This optional tour of Newport’s Gilded Age mansions will examine the twin issues of memory and commemoration through the lens of late twentieth-century historic preservation. Participants will visit three sites, the Elms, the Isaac Bell House and Kingscote. Representatives from the Preservation Society of Newport County will be available to answer questions and provide explanations of interior spaces. Participants will receive lunch as part of the tour and transportation to and from the mansions. The tour is limited to 25.