The HRC thanks Karin Peterson, Museum Director for the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, for serving as guest author for the following entry. Karin is responsible for the oversight of four state museums: Henry Whitfield State Museum in Guilford; Old New Gate Prison & Copper Mine in East Granby, Prudence Crandall Museum in Canterbury and the Sloane-Stanley Museum in Kent. Interpreting Historic House Museums edited by Jessica Foy Donnelly is a compendium of...
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The HRC thanks Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko for serving as guest author for the following entry. Cinnamon has worked in small museums for over ten years and is currently CEO of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. Previously Cinnamon was the director of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, a National Historic Landmark site and small museum, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where she guided the museum to a 2008 IMLS National Medal for Museum and...
Truth in advertising: I like workbooks. There, I've said it. I like the comfort of step-by-step, self-paced guidance, and I really like setting my historical society's priorities based on accepted "best practices" devised by experts in my field. After all, who wants to reinvent the wheel?If you find yourself in a leadership position - paid or volunteer - in a museum or historical society that you know needs practical guidance, the American Association for...
The HRC thanks Stephen Bartkus for serving as guest author for the following entry. Stephen is the curator of the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum in Washington, Connecticut. He is a professional archaeologist also employed with Archaeological Consulting Services in Guilford and has participated in numerous excavations throughout the Northeast. He is the former curator of the Watertown Historical Society and currently serves on their board of directors. He is also on the board...
The HRC thanks Kenneth C. Turino for serving as guest author for the following entry. Ken is the Manager of Community Engagement and Exhibitions for Historic New England in Boston, Massachusetts, where he oversees Historic New England's community engagement programs throughout all six New England states. He created the Program in New England Studies, an intensive one-week course of study on New England material culture, and is responsible for the institution's traveling exhibitions program....
