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The following CFP deserves (and may even require) a brief supplementary
remark.  Some of you will remember having seen similar calls in
previous years, since this is the fifth such annual conference.  What
makes this continuing conference UNIQUE is both its setting (at a
Living History Center in central Maine) and its accommodations.  All
people presenting papers are housed, dined, and occasionally wined by
local supporters of the Center.  And a good time is usually had by all.
 
Past participants have come from all parts of America and from Italy.
Last year's speakers came from Alaska, New Brunswick, Florida and
places in between.
 
        Please circulate this call to friends and colleagues.
 
 
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
 
                 for the fifth annual conference on
 
           NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
 
                           focussing on
 
                      FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS
 
                         June 12-14, 1997
 
                           sponsored by
 
                  The WASHBURN HUMANITIES CENTER
                      in association with the
 
                      University of Maine and
                 the University of Southern Maine
 
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; and (1996) CULTURES:
     FOLK, POPULAR, ETHNIC, ARTISTIC, LITERARY, POLITICAL.
 
 
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 abstracts by January 15
                (and requests for more information)
                            either to:
 
                           Billie Gammon
                    Washburn Humanities Center
                             Norlands
                         RFD 2, Box 3395
                     Livermore Falls, ME 04254
                       Phone: (207) 897-2236
 
                                or to
 
                         Jerome Nadelhaft
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          Previously published material should not be submitted.