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The Association for the Study of Connecticut History |
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The Association for the Study of Connecticut History |
Association
for the Study
Of Connecticut History
April 2001
Dear
ASCH Members:
Several
months have passed since a very successful annual meeting in November and much
has happened since then.
For
those of you who were unable to attend the November meeting at the Hartford
Medical Society, it was a joint meeting with the Connecticut Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the Connecticut League of History Organizations.
The topic of the meeting was the town survey reports of 1800.
About 100 people were in attendance.
At
this meeting, the Homer D. Babbidge, Jr. Award was presented to Christopher
Grasso for A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming
Public Discourse in Eighteenth Century Connecticut and
to Lisa Wilson for Ye Heart of a
Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England.
The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences received the Betty M.
Linsley Award for A History of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
1799-1999 by Mary Ellen Ellsworth.
Patricia
Thevenet will be chairing the 2001 awards committee, so submit your nominations
to Pat by August 30th. If
you need further information on the awards, please contact Pat directly.
For
the first time in several years, ASCH is going to hold a Spring Meeting program.
It will be held at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme on Saturday,
May 12. Program speakers will be
Jan Schenk Grosskopf and Paul Grant-Costa.
Curator Jack Becker will speak about the changes going on at the Florence
Griswold Museum. Admission to the
museum is included with meeting registration fee.
I hope to see you on the 12th.
The
Spring 200l issue of Connecticut History is due out shortly. It will
feature a photo essay on abandoned state mental hospitals, articles on partisan
politics and the death of Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy and the Catholic vote
in Connecticut in the 1960 election, a symposium on the identity of Italian
Americans, and a study of the World War I Women’s Land Army of America,
Connecticut branch. The 170-page
issue will also include an exhibition review essay, a book review essay, eight
exhibition reviews, and five book reviews.
Plans
for the 2001 annual conference are well underway. The date is Saturday, November 10, 200l at the Keeney
Memorial Cultural Center in Wethersfield. The
theme of the program is “Murder in New England: 1625-1950”. The
conference is sponsored by ASCH, the Wethersfield Historical Society, and the
Connecticut League of History Organizations.
This program, like many of our previous ones and our journal, Connecticut
History, receives support from the Connecticut Humanities Council.
ASCH is extremely grateful to the CHC for their continuing support.
Current ASCH membership stands at 125. Dues
are $25.00 a year for both individual and institutional memberships.
For those who have not renewed their membership for 2001, a dues renewal
form is enclosed. ASCH depends on
your support. Please complete the
dues form and send it with your check to Treasurer Paul Siff, if you have not
already done so. (The membership
year runs from November 2000 to October 31, 2001.)
To
enhance the lines of communication between the Board and its membership, a
current list of Board members and how they can be reached is appears below.
Please feel free to call any member of the Board or me with questions or
comments.
Sincerely,
Patricia
Bodak Stark
President
ASCH
