The Connecticut League of History Organizations
received a $12,116 technical assistance grant to develop and host a series of
best practices seminars introducing museum staff and volunteers to the latest
techniques and theories in collection care and management. At the conclusion
of the series, participants were called back for a Case Study/Application and
Review session to share their accomplishments
Current interest in the changing forms and functions of the American family
in the post-World War II era of mass communicaitons and changing family stucture
inspired the Association for the Study of Connecticut History to seek a $5,000
professional development grant to organize a one-day conference. This conference
examined the interactions between children and their families in the Colonial
period and discussed the transformations of family culture int he nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. The primary goal of the conference was to establish
a dialogue between historians and those who study material culture to make the
history of the family more accessible to the public and tourists visiting historic
houses.