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2008 State History Conference
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The 134th Annual State History Conference will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan and is hosted and sponsored by the Public Museum and the Grand Rapids Area Historical Society. The 2008 State History Conference is also generously sponsored by Michigan's leading retailer, Meijer Inc., and Grand Valley State University.
Highlights of the conference include:
Pre-conference tours of Historic Grand Rapids, a Behind-the-Scenes Tour of History Exhibitions at the Public Museum, and Closed Stacks: a Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Grand Rapids' Research Archives.
Conference Keynote speakers include Hank Meijer discussing Michigan's Homegrown Retailer: 75 Years of Meijer, John Logie on Back to the Future - how Grand Rapids' past is informing decisions in the present, Gordon Olson exploring Grand Rapids in Film and Craig Benjamin exploring Michigan Jazz artists and their impact in Blues of the Motor City.
Breakout sessions on Saturday will feature Newcomers: the People of This Place: Ethnicity in Western Michigan - the Public Museum's Newest Long-term Exhibit by Chris Carron; Women and Work in Grand Rapids 1830-1930 by Ruth Fan Stee and Marcie Beck; the Toledo War: the First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry with Donald Faber; Researching and Interpreting Native American History with Jim McClurken, Mary Esther Lee and Debra Muller; Idelwild: An African-American Eden in Western Michigan with Ben Wilson; and Lost in Grand Rapids by Father Dennis Morrow.
A "training track" is also a part of the Saturday breakout sessions. Mini-workshops will be included including Designing a Dynamic and Affordable Website: Insights from our Successes and Failures by Diana Barrett and Matthew Daley, Textile Preservation for Small Museums by Veronica Kandl, and using First Person History with Michael Johnson.
The conference hotel is the Days Hotel in downtown Grand Rapids, across the street from the Public Museum and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and just down the block from the Eberhard Center on GVSU's downtown campus where all of the Saturday conference events will be held. Days Hotels are the upscale properties of the Days Inn chain. This hotel just completed a $3 million renovation earlier in 2008. A special conference rate of $89.95 has been arranged.
To make reservations call the number below. Be sure to identify yourself as attending the 2008 State History Conference and ask for the special conference rate:
Days Hotel: (616) 235-7611. To visit their website Click here.
For more information on the conference or to register download the conference flier below, e-mail us at hsm@hsmichigan.org or call toll-free (800) 692-1828.
Download a PDF of the 2008 State History Conference flier
2008 Upper Peninsula History Conference
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The 59th Annual UP History Conference is being hosted by the Forsyth Township Historical Society. Highlights of the conference include pre-conference tours of the Tilden Mine, Potlatch lumbering operation, and the Sawyer Air Force Base Museum. Conference Keynote speakers include Arnold Alanen discussing the Gwinn Model Town, Russell Magnaghi on Ethnic Foods of the Upper Peninsula and Tom Friggens speaking on the No Tears in Heaven: the Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster. Breakout sessions on Saturday will feature Demetrius Charlton: Architect of the UP but Steve Brissom, UP Immigrants by Barry C. James, The Gem in the Queen's Crown: An Environmental History of Marquette's Presque Isle Park by John Anderton, Warren Manning and UP Landscape Design by Lynn Bjorkman, Corporate Paternalism and Labor-Management Relations on the Iron Ranges by Terry S. Reynolds, and Archaeology of the Upper Peninsula by Jim Paquette. Mini-workshops will be included in the conference on Saturday including one on Oral History 101: Using Personal History to Preserve Community History by James Cameron.
The conference motels will be the Red Fox Inn and the Model Towne Inn with special conference rates starting at $39.95 (Red Fox Inn) and $49.95 (Model Towne Inn). The Red Fox Inn features spacious rooms and was once the housing for officers at the Sawyer Air Force base. The inn offers standard rooms ($39.95) as well as one, two and three bedroom suites (available for an additional charge). The Model Towne Inn is near the village center. Both motels offer clean and reasonable accommodations typical of a modestly priced motel. Upscale accommodations are available twenty miles north in Marquette.
To make reservations call one of the numbers below. Be sure to identify yourself as attending the 2008 Upper Peninsula History Conference and ask for the special conference rate:
Red Fox Inn: (866) 369-0096
Motel Towne Inn: (888) 252-9495
The UP Conference motels in the Gwinn area are full or nearly full. You
can look for alternate motels/hotels in Marquette, about 20 miles to the
north, at www.orbitz.com or any other travel website for on-line booking.
We have just learned that the Cedar Motor Inn in Marquette is offering a special rate to attendees of the 2008 Upper Peninsula History Conference. When reserving please ask for the "Gwinn Centennial/UP History Conference Rate." Room rates start at $45.00. To reserve call toll-free (888) 551-7378 of (906) 228-2280.
Download a PDF of the 2008 conference flier
The UP History Conference Started in 1950! View past conference locations
2008 State History ConferenceSeptember 26-28, 2008 |
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Mulling Over Michigan2008 |
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Mulling Over Michigan is an annual Statewide Michigan Studies Conference. Aimed at educators that teach Michigan History in the classroom, this conference will increase the quality and quantity of your Michigan state and local history teaching and promote its incorporation into the social studies curricula.
The Mulling Over Michigan is an educational conference of the Historical Society of Michigan.
Download the 2007 brochure to see sample content
Future Conference Locations:
Upper Peninsula History Conference:
June 27-29, 2008 Gwinn
June 26-28, 2009 Newberry
June 25-27, 2010 Menominee
State History Conference:
September 26-28, 2008 Grand Rapids
October 2-4, 2009 Mackinac Island
2010 Frankenmuth
2011 Traverse City
