Location: Deerfield, MA
Contact Hours: 15
Cost: $125 (includes two lunches and one dinner)
Cutoff Date: June 15, 2006
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Programs will be held at Historic Deerfield and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Memorial Hall Museum (PVMA). Participants will learn first hand about the colonial community about the tragic consequences of intercultural contact. Primary source documents and a workshop in online resources available in the classroom will increase the content knowledge of the participants and enable them to return to the classroom better able to increase the knowledge of their students after this experience.

The Institute has applied to the Connecticut and Massachusetts Departments of Education to be designated an authorized provider for teachers in those states.

July 15 Colonial New England Life (9:00-8:30)

9:00 Welcome and Overview at Historic Deerfield
9:30 Historic Deerfield Orientation Video and Curator talk
10:30 Historic Deerfield Church Walk and Burying Grounds walks
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Historic Deerfield Flynt Center: Early New England
4:00 Historic Deerfield Dwight House Tour
6:00 Dinner at the Deerfield Inn
7:00 Video and First Person Narratives: PVMA
July 16 (9:00-5:00)

9:00 Day in Review
9:15 Historic Deerfield Sheldon House Tour
10:15 Historic Deerfield Archaeology
11:30 Historic Deerfield Williams House Tour
12:30 Lunch at Deerfield Academy Inn
1:30 Memorial Museum: PVMA
2:45 Digital Deerfield: PVMA
4:45 Wrap Up
Lodging has been arranged at Red Roof Inn at the rate of $50/night double occupancy plus tax. For reservations call 800-733-7633 by May 14, 2006.

If there is a Teacherhostel you would like to see created please contact IHARE at contact@ihare.org.

For further information contact Dr. Peter Feinman at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org