FIRST NOTICE CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS 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 [log in to unmask] Previously published material should not be submitted.