Long-time subscribers to ATHG will recognize this CALL FOR
PAPERS.  I always like to add a brief note.  As the CFP notes, this
is a unique conference, held every June in a beautiful section of
central Maine.  People presenting papers are housed, wined and dined by
host families who, along with neighbors and presenters, make up the bulk
of the audience.  It is an ideal conference for everyone, tenured and
junior faculty--as well as for tenured and junior faculty.  Truly, a
good time is
ALWAYS had by everyone.

                              *****

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS for the Ninth Annual Conference on NORTHERN NEW
ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.  (Northern New England has always
been rather imperialistically interpreted; we have included northern New
York, the Atlantic Provinces, and areas that northern New Englanders
moved to or influenced.)  The topic of the next conference is:

Finding Sustenance in a Challenging Environment: Food, Drink, Family,
                        Community, and Spirituality

                         June 7-9, 2001

The conference is sponsored by The WASHBURN HUMANITIES CENTER in
association with the University of Maine and the University of Maine at
Farmington.

This UNIQUE conference is held at a Living History Center in central
Maine.  All people presenting papers are housed and dined by local
supporters of the Center.  Audiences are made up of other presenters and
members of surrounding communities.  Past participants have come from
all parts of America.

The Washburn Humanities Center welcomes the submission of papers
representing a broad range of disciplines.  Topics are limited only by
your imagination.  The Center encourages the submission of complete two
or three paper sessions.

The annual Washburn Humanities Conference is designed to illuminate the
social, cultural, political, and economic history of northern New
England, the region's impact on the nation and the nation's on the
region.  Previous conference themes were (1993) WOMEN AND MEN IN THE
CIVIL WAR ERA (1840-1880);  (1994) PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES;
(1995) MIGRATIONS (of people, ideas, culture, crops, animals) into/out
of/within northern New England; (1996) CULTURES: FOLK, POPULAR, ETHNIC,
ARTISTIC, LITERARY, POLITICAL; (1997) FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS; (1998)
INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES and (1999) TURNING POINTS IN
NINETEENTH-CENTURY NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND.

The Conference will be held at the Washburn-Norlands Living History
Center, a 445 acre site containing a restored one room school house,
farmer's cottage, free standing library (housing the extensive Washburn
family collections), a 200 seat 1828 Universalist Church, and the 1867
Washburn mansion.

Submit 250 word abstract and one-page vita by February 14 to:

                          Billie
Gammon                                                 Washburn
Humanities Center, Norlands
                      42 Hathaway Hill Road
                       Livermore, ME 04253
          Phone: (207) 897-2236  /  FAX: (207) 897-7064

Previously published material should not be submitted.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me (Jerome Nadelhaft) by
e-mail.

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