商品簡介
Why should our museum accept and exhibit that tractor? Why do we need to keep those old seed samples or those plows? No one cares about farming anymore. Interpreting Agriculture in Museums and Historic Sites orients readers to major themes in agriculture and techniques in education and interpretation that can help you develop humanities-based public programming that enhance agricultural literacy. Case studies illustrate the ways that local research can help you link your history organization to compelling national (even international) stories on topics relevant to public needs and interests.
作者簡介
Debra A. Reid is currently a Professor in the Department of History at Eastern Illinois University (EIU) and hasbeen at EIU since 1999. She teaches a variety of courses including material culture analysis and collections care for EIU’sHistorical Administration Graduate Program. Since 2006 she has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciencesteaching Illinois agricultural history. She has served as president of the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums, and is a fellow of the Agricultural History Society.
Reid has spent her entire career working with farm and agricultural history. She grew up on a farm in southern Illinois and interacted with relatives who farmed based on traditional practices. She earned a B.S. in Historic Preservation at Southeast Missouri State University (1982), was a summer fellow at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts (1981), then earned an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program (1987), an M.A. in History from Baylor University (1996), and a Ph.D. in History from Texas A&M University (2000). She worked in seven states and a foreign country before joining Eastern Illinois University in 1999.
Reid worked at the Washburn Norlands Living History Center in Maine (a living history farm that interpreted 1870s rural life in the vicinity of the farm home of the politically prominent Washburn family). The center was noted for its four-day live-in program that allowed visitors to “experience history through the seat of their pants.” She also worked as an interpreter at most of the farm sites collected and preserved at Old World Wisconsin, then spent five years as the Operations Manager of The Farmers Museum, Inc. in Cooperstown, New York. She also worked on contract at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan twice before moving to Texas in 1993. There she curated the Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village which interpreted an 1890s plantation community, installed on the Baylor University campus in Waco, and also earned a second M.A.
