Living History Association
Living History Association
PO Box 1389
Wilmington, VT 05363
ph: 802-368-7913
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2010-2011 Teacher Workshops
These programs sponsored by the
Town of Dover, Vermont, Economic Development Committee
Feel it...
See it...
Hear it!
Experience the past first hand and
Make history come alive for your students!
These workshops are designed to enhance your knowledge of a time period by having you immerse yourself in the mind set of the time period. This is hands on history taught with reproductions, artifacts, and detailed lectures.
Educator Certificates of Attendance are included.
Each listing represents different teacher workshops on a variety of subjects presented by educators and interpretive historians affiliated with or contracted by the Living History Association, Inc. (LHA).
The LHA is a registered 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization with many members across the entire United States. The organization has many membership benefits that include discounts at museums and stores, publications, insurance programs, socials, and reenactment events. LHA works with many state and federal historic sites as well as non-profit museums to create events to bring segments of our collective heritage alive with the sights and sounds of history.
Now we are offering a series of workshops presented by some of our most talented members and associates to give teachers in our communities a better understanding of our past, that they then can pass on to their student bodies.
LECTURERS WE GENERALLY WORK WITH ARE:
- Howard Coffin: American Civil War Author of 9 Months to Gettysburg and Full Duty, both books centering on Vermont’s involvement in the Civil War.
- James Dassatti: Executive Director of the Living History Association who is well versed on both the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars and has given well over 1,000 lectures to school groups, teachers, Elderhostel groups and seniors as well as participating in event organization, museum, video, and publication projects for the association.
- Lynn Manring: Education Department manager for the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Museum and Indian House, Old Deerfield, Massachusetts; organizer of all educational and living history programs for school students and the general public.
- Jon Soule: Former Manager of Interpretive History at the Fort at No. 4restoration in Charlestown, NH, as well as a French & Indian War reenactor and event organizer for the past 20 years from sites along Lake George & Lake Champlain to Old Deerfield.
- Leo Tucker: Combat Marine veteran who has over 10 years of experience interpreting and researching the history of America’s Colonial Navy and Marine Corps.
WORKSHOPS
Participants in this series of workshops will arrive via their own transportation at the Matterhorn Inn, located in the southern Vermont community of West Doveron Route 100, 1 mile before the main entrance to the Mount Snow Ski Area.
The Matterhorn Inn features well furnished overnight accommodations, a full restaurant facility and bar, daytime lecture room and evening lounge all decorated in an eclectic antique motif.
Class instruction will be conducted by qualified members of the Living History Association who have 35 years of experience researching and lecturing on the colonial and Civil War periods.
Many of the lecturers are directly involved in the planning and staging of reenactment events at each of the sites in the Lake Champlain and Hudson River Valleys. Some of the lecturers are museum staff members at area historic sites such as “The Indian House” in Olde Deerfield, Massachusetts, or the Fort at No. 4 in Charlestown, New Hampshire.
The entire workshop series will be guided by James Dassatti, the Executive Director of the Living History Association, who is a well-known area lecturer in schools, for Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) and senior groups, as well as past lectures for the Vermont Humanities Council. Most lecturers will be in period attire and share a variety of artifacts, reproductions, and detailed stories about the era they represent.
All programs prices are based on having more than one lecturer and at least five participant teachers in attendance as our “students.”
2010 COLONIAL & REVOLUTIONARY
SOCIAL STUDIES & HISTORY TEACHER’S PROGRAM 1620-1780
Workshop #1
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION & THE GREAT NORTHERN VICTORIES 1777
November 3-5, 2010
April 5-7, 2011
April 25-27, 2011
Educator's Certificate of Attendance is given for 12½ hours of instruction.
From the equipment used at home, to the soldiers in the field, we will explore the events, activities, and thought process, which carried the evolving Americans through the colonial period and into the Revolution. Missteps by the British and the need for Americans to rule themselves would all play a role in forming a new nation. Home life plays an essential role in formulating the revolutionary mind set of an emerging democracy, and the pressures of living in America accentuate the need for the rise of the citizen soldier to assure that democracy.
DAY 1
3:00 pm — Group arrival at the Matterhorn Inn
6:00 pm — Dinner is served at the Inn
7:30 pm — Introduction to the Program
DAY 2
7:00 am — Breakfast is served at the Inn
8:30 am — Class lectures: Early Settlement, Frontier Life, French & Indian Wars,
Seeds of Revolution, Ethan Allen and the New Hampshire Grants
12:00 pm — Lunch is served at the Inn
1:30 pm — Artifacts, reproductions, customs and manners
2:30 pm — Resources you might consider, books, etc.
3:30 pm — The Revolution in New England, an overview
6:00 pm — Dinner is served at the Inn
7:30 pm — Colonial Women: their lives and times
DAY 3
7:00 am — Breakfast is served at the Inn
8:30 am — Lecture: Taxes & 1775-1777 Military Campaigns and Politics
9:30 am — The Revolution and the Northern Campaign.
11:45 am — Lunch is served at the Matterhorn
12:30 pm — Questions and answers
1:15 pm — Workshop ends.
Cost per person includes overnight accommodations for two nights, six meals and a 12½ hour certificate of attendance. $275.00 single occupancy – see room rates below.
Stay: DOUBLE OCCUPANCY: $70.00 per room (for Triple add $15.00)
SINGLE OCCUPANCY: $55.00 per room
All room rates include breakfast
Workshop #2
COLONIAL AMERICAN TIMES
November 1-3, 2010
April 27-29, 2011
May 2-4, 2011
Educator's Certificate of Attendance is given for 12½ hours of instruction.
This workshop will take you from the shores of Plymouth Rock, the trials and tribulations of early settlements, through the early Native American uprisings and the final French and Indian Wars.
Customs, economics, agrarian lifestyles, religion, and self-government all play a role in laying the foundation for the coming Revolutionary War. Reproductions and artifacts accentuate the workshops with class instructors dressed in period attire. Many handouts of assorted materials are included.
DAY 1
3:00 pm — Coffee clatch, registrations, and introductions
5:30 pm — Dinner at the Matterhorn Inn.
7:00 pm — Pilgrims, Massachusetts Bay Colony, relations with Native Americans,
basis of early colonial English economic system, farmer’s clothing
and basic customs
DAY 2
7:00 am — Breakfast is served at the Matterhorn Inn.
8:30 am — Pequot War, King Philips War, King William’s War, Gov. Dummer’s War,
Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War, The Seven Year’s War.
The English colonial farmer/warrior and his perspective of
European Power.
11:45 am — Lunch at the Matterhorn Inn.
12:45 pm — The French and Indian War in New England
1:30 pm — Movie
3:00 pm — The American Revolution in New England
5:00 pm — Break
6:00 pm — Dinner at the Matterhorn Inn
7:30 pm — The women of the colonial period.
DAY 3
7:00 am — Breakfast at the Matterhorn Inn.
8:30 am — French colonial soldier: arms, equipment and attitudes about life
and viewpoint on the colonies
9:30 am — Questions and answers.
10:00 am — Break
10:15 am — The American Revolution 1777-78.
12:00 pm — Lunch at the Matterhorn Inn.
Cost per person includes overnight accommodations for two nights, six meals and a 12½ hour certificate of attendance: $275.00 single occupancy – see additional room rate figures below.
Stay: DOUBLE OCCUPANCY: $70.00 per room (for Triple add $15.00)
SINGLE OCCUPANCY: $55.00 per room
All room rates include breakfast
Workshop #3
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
November 8, 2010
May 5, 2011
Educator's Certificate of Attendance is given for 6½ hours of instruction.
This workshop will discuss the evolution of the American thought process through the colonial period to the Revolution. The impact and continued implications of the Declaration of Independence will be discussed. The military campaigns in New Englandand New York through 1780 will be addressed, as well as the attitudes, arms, clothing, and equipment of the soldiers, their ability to wage war, and general strategy. Instructors will be in period attire and many handouts of assorted materials will be included.
8:30 am — Coffee clatch, registrations, and introductions
9:00 am — The English colonial economic system, French and Indian Wars,
thoughts that lead to Revolution, and the English colonial farmer
and his customs
11:15 am — Politics and the major military events of 1775-1777,
Who is the American soldier? Arms, clothing and equipment
12:15 pm — Lunch at the Matterhorn Inn.
1:15 pm — The English soldier: his attitudes, equipment, and supply problems
1:45 pm — The War in New England and the Northeast.
3:30 pm — Major Events to the end of the war
4:15 pm — Questions and Answers
4:45 pm — Retire for the Day
Cost per person includes one meal and 6½ hour certificate of attendance: $125.00
Stay: DOUBLE OCCUPANCY: $70.00 per room (for Triple add $15.00)
SINGLE OCCUPANCY: $55.00 per room
All room rates include breakfast
Workshop #4
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 - 1865
November 12, 2010
May 10, 2011
Educator's Certificate of Attendance is given for 5¼ hours of instruction.
The American Civil War comes to life with everything from swords and muskets to hard tack and coffee boilers. Historical interpreters in period attire will explain a host of gear and equipment.
Tents, blanket rolls, a real cannon with artillery shells, and much more. In addition, the causes for the war will be related to each region’s basic geographical and climate differences, agrarian practices, crop values, natural changes in the market place, and the effects of the industrial revolution. The ties between slavery, the Declaration of Independence, and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address will be discussed. The strategy to win the war as well as the tactics that caused so many deaths will be discussed.
8:30 am — Coffee clatch, registrations and introductions
9:00 am — The English colonial economic system and farming methods and crops.
The Declaration of Independence Effects of climate, soil, geography,
local vegetation, water power, the Industrial Revolution, indentured
servants, slaves, immigrant workers, and Patroon Plantations as
contributing factors as regards civil rights thinking in the
mid 19th century.
11:15 am — The war tradition in America 1638-1845, the evolution of weaponry,
Arms and equipment of the Civil War soldier.
12:00 pm — Lunch at the Matterhorn Inn.
12:45 pm — Civil War soldier continued: strategy and tactics, hands on
demonstrations to include artillery. Thoughts on casualties.
1:45 pm — An author’s examples of real soldier’s lives in the Civil War
2:45 pm — Questions and answers
3:15 pm — Role play exercise.
4:00 pm — Retire for the day
Cost per person includes one meal and 5¼ hour certificate of attendance: $195.00
Stay: DOUBLE OCCUPANCY: $70.00 per room (for Triple add $15.00)
SINGLE OCCUPANCY: $55.00 per room
All room rates include breakfast
Workshop #5
LIVING HISTORY CONFERENCE OF RESOURCES
November 9, 2011 (being planned)
Certificate of Attendance is given for 4¼ hours of instruction.
The Living History Association brings together lecturers of the Colonial, Revolutionary and Civil War eras in an eclectic day of discussions about the time period each lecturer portrays or discusses.
They will also discuss the unique institutions each lecturer represents and the educational programs that those institutions offer to school age students. This is a great opportunity for teachers to learn some tidbits of history as well as acquire first-hand knowledge of the resources that are just an hour or two from your school waiting to be discovered.
8:30 am — Coffee clatch, registrations, introductions
9:45 am — Plymouth Colony, 1620 -
10:30 am — The Indian House, 1720, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Museum, Deerfield, MA
11:15 am — The Fort at Number 4, 1745, Charlestown, NH
12:00 pm — Lunch at the Matterhorn Inn Restaurant, Deli Buffet
1:00 pm — The Living History Association and the American Revolution,
1775 - 1783
1:45 pm — The Living History Association and the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865
2:30 pm — Questions and Answers
3:00 pm — Retire for the Day
Cost per person includes one meal and a 4¼ hour certificate of attendance: $215.00
A registration form for all of these workshops can be found here. Please download, print, and return with registration fee(s).
If you have any question regarding any of these programs, please e-mail the LHA atinfo@livinghistoryassn.org or call 802-368-7913begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 802-368-7913 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
Workshops
Participants in this series of workshops will arrive via their own transportation at theMatterhorn Inn, located in the southern Vermont community of West Dover on Route 100, 1 mile before the main entrance to the Mount Snow Ski Area. The Matterhorn Inn features well furnished overnight accommodations, a full restaurant facility and bar, daytime lecture room and evening lounge all decorated in an eclectic antique motif.
Class instruction will be conducted by qualified members of the Living History Association who have 35 years of experience researching and lecturing on the colonial period. Many of the lecturers are directly involved in the planning and staging of reenactment events at each of the sites in the Lake Champlain and Hudson River Valleys. Some of the lecturers are museum staff members at area historic sites such as “The Indian House” in Olde Deerfield, Massachusetts, or the Fort at No. 4 in Charlestown, New Hampshire. The entire workshop series will be guided by James Dassatti, the Executive Director of the Living History Association, who is a well-known area lecturer in schools, for Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) and senior groups, as well as past lectures for the Vermont Humanities Council. Most lecturers will be in period attire and share a variety of artifacts, reproductions, and detailed stories about the colonial era.
All programs prices are based on having more than one lecturer and at least five participant teachers in attendance as our “students.”
Living History Association
PO Box 1389
Wilmington, VT 05363
ph: 802-368-7913
info
