Leisure,Tourism, and the 19th-Century Resort
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:00-8:45 am, Ochre Court, Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I.
Welcome
8:45-9:00, Ochre Court State Dining Room
Dr. Dean E. de la Motte, Vice President for Academic Affairs
Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I.
Session I: Keynote Address
9:00-9:45 am, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Leisure, Tourism and the 19th-Century Resort
Richard Guy Wilson,
Commonwealth Professor and Chair of Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, V.a.
Session II: Spaces of Leisure: The In(side)s and Out(side)s of Resort Architecture
10:00-11:45, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Before Tampa Bay: J. A. Wood's Resort Hotel Architecture
Annon Adams, Independent Scholar, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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A Decade Apart: A Consideration of Two Beaux Arts Hotels by the Firm of Carrere and Hastings
Heather McMahon, Independent Scholar, Charlottesville, V.a.
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Architectural Journeys: From World’s Fairs to American Resorts
Cristina Carbone, University of Louisville, K.y.
Lunch
12:00-1:00, Ochre Court Terrace
Session III: Attractions at Home and Abroad: Travel during the 19th Century
1:00-2:45 pm, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Hegemony and Resistance in the Canadian Rockies: The 19th Travel Accounts of American Mountaineers S.E.S. Allen and Walter Wilcox
Peter Fortna, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada
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A Grand Tour During the U.S. Civil War: The Wheatons Go To Europe
Kathryn Tomasek and Zephorene Stickney, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.
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Skyscraper Tourism: The Woolworth Building in New York
Gail Fenske, Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation, Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I.
Session IV: Playing on Land and at Sea: The Rise of Sporting Culture
1:00-2:45 pm, Ochre Court State Drawing Room
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“Golf Is King at Poland Spring:” Anti-Modernity and Modernity at a 19th Resort
David Richards, Assistant Director, Margaret Chase Smith Library, Northwood University, Skowhegan, Maine
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From President to Stable-boy: A History of 19th Resort Horse Shows
Perky Beisel, Assistant Professor, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
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The 1885 Schooner Coronet - Her Past, Present and Future
Susan Daly, Marketing Director, International Yacht Restoration School, Newport, R.I.
Tour 1: Sport and Leisure in Newport
3:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from Ochre Court
Conference participants will explore the sporting landscape of Newport’s leisure class and its present-day preservation through site visits to the Newport Casino (now the Tennis Hall of Fame) and the International Yacht Restoration School. This tour is included in the registration fee.
Gallery Opening
5:30-7:30 pm, Wetmore Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I.
“The Original Williams:” Stereopticon Photography in Newport, 1865-1880
Introduction by James C. Garman, Associate Professor, Salve Regina University
For nearly three decades, Newport’s J.A. Williams created a series of stereopticon photographs that established the image of Newport in the popular mind. This exhibition is the first to consider the broad range of Williams’ work, ranging from well-known natural landmarks to the houses of elites to people at play on the beaches and tennis lawns. Williams’ gradual transition from tastemaker to documenter of the colonial past is the central theme of the exhibition, which features large-scale enlargements of his work.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:00-8:30 am, Ochre Court
Session V: Souvenirs, Suits and Taffy: Objects of Leisure
8:30-10:15 am, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Bringing 'The World to Your Home:' Selling Stereographs as Vehicles of Virtual Travel and Class Mobility
Virginia Myhaver, Doctoral Candidate, American & New England Studies, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
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`Women Can Go into the Surf Without Making Themselves Hideous:’ Bathing Suits and Social Hygiene at Coney Island, 1873-1914
Frances Davey, Doctoral candidate, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
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From Seven Presidents to Salt-Water Taffy: The Cultural Landscape of the Jersey Shore in Printed Ephemera
Jackie Killian, Historian, Joseph Pell Lombardi & Associates, Architects, New York, N.Y.
Session VI: Challenging Conventional History: Gender, Race and Leisure at the 19th-Century Resort
10:30am -12:30 pm, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Black Tourists, Workers, and Residents in 19th-Century Resorts: An Overview
Myra Young Armstead, Professor of History, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
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Making Waves: Businesswomen in 19th-Century Ocean City, Maryland
Sandra Scaffidi, Architectural Historian, KCI Technologies, Inc., Morgantown, W.Va.
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Chillin' While Colored: Places of Leisure for 19th-Century African Americans
Patsy M. Fletcher, Community Dev. Consultant and Independent Historian
Joy Kinard, Education Programs Coordinator
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House and Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Sites, Washington, D.C.
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Women and Preserved Spaces at American Resorts
Kevin Murphy, Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, N.Y.
Lunch
12:15-1:00 pm, Ochre Court Terrace
Session VII: From Retreats to Rusticators: The Role of Nature During the Resort Era
1:00-2:45 pm, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Landscapes of Leisure: Summerhouses and other Rustic Nooks at 19th-Century Resorts
Kerry Dean Carso, Assistant Professor of Art History, State University of New York at New Paltz, N.Y.
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Rocks, Springs and Rambles: Essex County, New Jersey's Sylvan Suburbs
Susan Nowicki, PhD, Independent Scholar, Montclair, N.J.
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The Rusticators: Indian Myth, Pastoral, and the Chocorua, New Hampshire, Summer Community in the Early Twentieth Century
Cynthia A. Melendy, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla
Session VIII: Leisure and Health: Spaces of Spiritual and Physical Recovery
1:00-2:45 pm, Ochre Court State Drawing Room
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From Doc Holliday to Artus Van Briggle: Seeking a Cure in the World's Sanatorium
Jacqui Ainlay-Conley, Classified Structures Technician, National Park Service Intermountain Regional Office and Masters Candidate in History, University of Colorado, Denver, Colo.
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Supernatural Americans, Nervous Americans and Dead Americans: Magnetism’s Magical Attraction
Sheila O’Brien Quinn, Assistant Professor, Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I.
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'Whether’ Sunshine or Cloudland in the Summer? Watering Holes and Rustic Retreats in East Tennessee in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
Mary Fanslow, Independent Scholar, Kingsport, Tenn.
Tour 2: Art and Photography from Newport’s Resort Era
3:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from Ochre Court
Conference participants will view important artworks, photographs and other memorabilia through site visits to the Redwood Library and Athenaeum and the Newport Art Museum, itself a resort-era institution. This tour is included within the registration fee.
Dinner on your own
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:30 am, Young Building
Session IX: Surrounded by Sea: Island Resorts and their Design
8:30 – 10:15 am, Young Building
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A Consuming Fantasy: The Invention of Cushing’s Island
Sara A. Butler, Assistant Professor, Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I.
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Resort Life in Nantucket (or How Many Slices of Pie)
Aaron Marcavitch, Preservation Consultant, Acorn Heritage Services, Nantucket, Mass.
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Tybee Island Cottages: The Architecture of the South’s Grand Coastal Resort
Megan Harrison Lord, Independent Scholar, Savannah, Ga.
Session X: The Leisure Lifestyle: Vacation Activities at the 19th-Century Resort
10:30 – 12:15 am, Young Building
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The Rise of Rustic Vacationing in Northern New Jersey
Robert Reynolds, Freyberger Professor of Pennsylvania German Studies, Kutztown University, Kutztown , Pa.
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Pertle Springs: Creating a Resort in the Midwest
Jeffrey Yelton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Mo.
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Playing Family at Eagles Mere, 1880s-1910s
Ed Slavishak, Assistant Professor of History, Susquehanna University, Sellinsgrove, Pa.
Optional Tour 1: Newport’s Natural Landscapes Through the Artists’ Lens
1:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from the Young Building
Additional Cost: $50.00 (The tour is limited to 25.)
This optional tour will explore the local landscapes and natural monuments that inspired and were made famous by Aquidneck Island’s artists and photographers. Participants will visit sites like The Glen, Spouting Rock, Beacon Rock, Rough Point, Whitehall, Purgatory Chasm and The Forty Steps. James L. Yarnall, Associate Professor at Salve Regina University and author of Newport Through its Architecture: A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern, will lead this exciting on-site experience. Participants will receive lunch as part of the tour and transportation to and from the sites.
Optional Tour 2: The Retreats, Cottages and Mansions of Newport’s Resort Era
1:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from the Young Building
Additional Cost: $40.00 (The tour is limited to 25.)
This optional tour will examine the development of the resort and cottage era during the Gilded Age of Newport. Participants will visit three sites, Kingscote, Chateau-sur-Mer and The Breakers, with an eye toward understanding Newport’s reputation as the Queen of Resorts. 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.
Salve Regina University would like to thank: The Newport Art Museum, The Newport Historical Society, The Preservation Society of Newport County, The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, the International Yaht Restoration School and the Newport Tennis Hall of Fame.
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