[MassHistPres] November 7 - Vernacular Architecture Forum - New England Chapter Virtual Conference

[Steinitz, Michael (SEC)]

REGISTRATION CLOSES NOVEMBER 6

Just a few days to go to register for the VAF-New England Chapter Annual Conference, scheduled for Saturday, 7 November 2020, to be held virtually as a Zoom meeting.  The Annual  Conference will run from 9:20 am to about 1:50 pm Eastern Standard Time.

The day’s eight presentations have been pre-recorded, but each speaker will be introduced live before each presentation, and a live question-and-answer session will follow each presentation.  There will be one short break mid-day.  The full program and schedule of  presentations listed below can be found at www.vafweb.org/VAF-NE_2020ConferenceSchedule<http://www.vafweb.org/VAF-NE_2020ConferenceSchedule>

To sign up for the program, please go to the VAF website at: http://www.vafweb.org/event-3999320  .

Registration is $10.00.  Registration is open to all, but non-VAF members will need to make a free account here first: http://vafweb.org/2020guest  .

Current Research by Members of VAF-New England Chapter- Saturday, 7 November 2020

“Framing the Old Colony: Early Plymouth Architecture in Context” - James Kelleher

“The New England Squash Barn” - Sally McMurry

“Marblehead Land Company, A Well-Documented Residential Subdivision of the 1880s”- John D Clemson

“A Look Back at a WWI Housing Effort” - Lorna Condon

“Introducing the Royal Barry Wills Associates Archives” - Lorna Condon

“Destination ‘Magic Town’: Capitalism, Corporate Branding, and the Trackside Architecture of the Portland & Rumford Falls Railway, 1890-1895” - C. Ian Stevenson

*Mid-day FORUM: Recovering Urban Vernacular Spaces in Boston and New York City*

“They Persisted: Women Confront the Corporate Improvement of Boston’s Waterfront, 1790-1820” - Kathryn Lasdow

“Real Estate and Reimagining African American Free Space in New York City” - Alexander Manevitz



Michael Steinitz on behalf of VAF-NE Chapter

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