Long-time subscribers to H-Net Lists will recognize this CALL FOR PAPERS. I always like to add a brief note. As the CFP notes, this really 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 graduate students--as well as for tenured and junior faculty. Truly, a good time is ALWAYS had by everyone. ***** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS for the Eighth 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.) This year's conferences focuses on: THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT: Worries, Death, Disasters, Disorder, and How the People Coped, Survived, and sometimes even Flourished. June 1-3, 2000 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. [log in to unmask]