New Hampshire Heritage Project Teacher Institute:
Heritage Studies and the Nature of Place
Franklin Pierce College, June 27 - July 2, 2004

In partnership with the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture, the New Hampshire Heritage Project designed a summer institute for teachers held on the campus of Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH. This institute, "Heritage Studies and the Nature of Place," brought teams of teachers and historical society personnel together from the Conway-Tamworth region, the Durham-Portsmouth region and the Jaffrey-Rindge region. Together, teacher teams read and discussed selected texts, practiced gathering oral history and spent extended time in the field learning to read landscape clues. Teams returned to their home regions for on-site application of techniques learned in the first part of the institute, culminating in curriculum development for the 2004-2005 school year. This institute was funded by the NH Humanities Council and the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture.

Schedule:

Sunday, June 27:
2 - 4: Registration of participants at Franklin Pierce dormitory
4:30 - 5:30 - Welcome, introductions - Kay Morgan, John Harris
(Marcucella Hall)
5:30 - 6:30 - Dinner - Alumni Lounge
7:00 - 8:30 Stories Circle

Mon., June 28:
7 - 8: Breakfast
8 - 9:30: Howard Mansfield - "What Do We Preserve and Why?"
Break
10 - 12: Workshop with Kay Morgan: "Gathering Stories - Dos and Don'ts"
Lunch
1 - 3: Workshop with Emma Rous: Writing about place and the integration of literature, history and the environment
3 - 5: Trip to Willa Cather's grave in Jaffrey Center
6:30: Dinner
7:30: Workshop with John Harris & Jon Schach: Editing oral histories &
using Flash software to post them on the web (optional)

Tuesday, June 29:
7 - 8: Breakfast
8:00 - 12:00 - Field experience: Reading the landscape - Tom Wessels
Lunch in the field
1:00 - 2:45 - Additional sites in the field - Tom Wessels
2:45 - 3:30: Wrap-up; debrief and re-focus for site-based portion of Institute
(Seacoast and North Country Teachers return home)

Wednesday, June 30
8:00 - 9:30: Discussion of region-specific texts/history
Local history intro (Bob Cottrell in Tamworth, Alan Rumrill in Jaffrey/Rindge, Kay Morgan in Durham)
Break
10 - noon: Participants in the field with local expert (David Watters,
Durham; John Harris, Tom Wessels Jaffrey-Rindge, Bob Cottrell, Tamworth)
Lunch
1 - 3: Visit to local archives
Conant: Tom Haynes, Cheshire County Historical Society/ archives or
Jaffrey Hist. Soc.
Durham: Marney Sumner, Durham Historical Society archivist
Tamworth: David Emerson - Conway Historical Society

Thursday, July 1:
8:00 - 9:30: Participants meet in respective sites to develop research
questions; write reflectively; brainstorm project ideas (Kay Morgan -
Durham; John Harris - Jaffrey; Bob Cottrell - North Country)
Break
10:00 - noon: In the field with local expert
Conant: John Harris - Historical sites
Durham: Emma Rous: Reading the landscape at Adams Point (Kay Morgan)
Tamworth: Bob Cottrell
Lunch
1:00 - 3:00: Research site visit, Group discussion to synthesize local field experiences; reflective writing

Friday, July 2:
8: - 3: Additional research/site work and lesson-planning; evaluation

Texts for all:
Mansfield, Howard, In the Memory House
Wessels, Tom. Reading the Forested Landscape
Rous, Emma. Literature and the Land
Text for Conant High School: History of Jaffrey/Rindge
Text for Seacoast: Bolster, Jeffrey, ed.: Cross-Grained & Wily Waters
Text for North Country : Selected readings