AND TEACHER INSTITUTE
“A Hunger for Home”
150 Years of the Alcotts at Orchard House
Wednesday, July 16th |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Coffee and Registration |
| 9:30 - 9:35 | Welcoming Remarks |
| 9:35 - 10:30 | Sterling Delano - Villanova University “Home in Utopia: Fruitlands and Brook Farm” |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Sterling Delano continued |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Morning Conversation |
| 12:15 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:15 | Evelyn Navarre - SUNY Buffalo “Longing for Home, Laboring for Home: Louisa May Alcott’s Work: A Story of Experience” |
| 2:15 - 2:45 | Afternoon Conversation |
| 2:45 - 4:30 | Teacher Institute Proceedings Today’s Special: Educational Resources at Orchard House |
Thursday, July 17th |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Coffee and Registration |
| 9:30 - 10:45 | Sarah Elbert - SUNY Binghamton “Bread and Roses: Louisa May Alcott’s Hunger for Home in Memory, Myth, and History” |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | John Matteson, John Jay College/2008 Pulitzer
Prize Winner “A Conversion of the Earth: Bronson Alcott and the Art of Gardening” |
| 12:15 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:15 | Cathlin Davis - CSU-Stanislaus “An Easy and Well-Ordered Way to Learn: Schooling at Home” |
| 2:15 - 2:45 | Conversation of the Day |
| 2:45 - 4:30 | Teacher Institute Proceedings Today’s Special: “Home on the Range: 19th C. Recipe Exchange” with the Staff of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House |
Friday, July 18th |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Coffee and Registration |
| 9:30 - 10:45 | Debra A. Ryals - Pensacola Junior College “An Evening’s Entertainment at Home” |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | The Staff of Louisa May Alcott’s
Orchard House “Abigail May Alcott: Labor of Love” |
| 12:15 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:15 | Living History Portrayal: “A
Conversation with A. Bronson Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson.” by D. Michael Ryan & Wendell Refior - Historians / Re-enactors |
| 2:15 - 2:45 | Conversation of the Day |
| 2:45 - 4:30 | Teacher Institute Proceedings Today’s Special: “What Lies Beneath: A Visit to The Concord Players Theater and Costume Collection” with Tracy Wall - 19th C. Costume Expert |
| 7:30 p.m. | Nancy Porter & Harriet Reisen - Producers
of the documentary “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women” Premiere Screening of Selected Film Clips with Q&A |
Saturday, July 19th |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Coffee and Registration |
| 9:30 - 10:45 | Patricia West - SUNY Albany/Martin Van
Buren Historic Site “Inventing Orchard House: The Meaning of Home in Progressive Era Concord” |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Lisa Stepanski - Emmanuel College “Margaret Sidney: The Five Little Peppers, and How They Grew” |
| 12:15 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Tour led by Cathlin Davis |
| 2:45 - 4:30 | Teacher Institute Proceedings Today’s Special: “Why The Alcotts” |
| 5:00-7:15 | Optional Teacher Dinner (at Concord restaurant of your choice; not provided) |
| 7:30 p.m. | Piano Performance: Charles Ives’ “The
Concord Sonata” by Keith Kirchoff - Pianist/Composer Trinitarian-Congregational Church (54 Walden Street, Concord) |
Sunday, July 20th |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 | Brunch |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Living History Portrayal: “Louisa
May Alcott - Anchored at Last” by Jan Turnquist - Orchard House Executive Director |
| 12:00 - 1:15 | Poetry Reading: “Voices of New
England” by Peter Stine - Gordon College |
| 1:15 - 2:00 | Closing Conversation |
| 2:45 - 4:30 | Teacher Institute Proceedings Today’s Special: Field Trip to Fruitlands |
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