We are still delighted at how our 2024 conference took us deep “Into the Woods” to consider New England’s forests in so many ways. Everyone who attended the conference, in person or virtually, has now received an email with a link to review recordings of the presentations.
All of us at the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife would like to thank everyone who made this year’s Seminar possible. Our crackerjack program committee gathered a strong set of panels, and those presenters all shared fascinating work!
We are grateful to naturalist Laurie Sanders of Historic Northampton, Dan Sousa of Historic Deerfield, and Jeanne Solensky of Deerfield’s Memorial Libraries for terrific pre-seminar tours and activities.
And of course we are thankful for all the attendees who joined us in person or online, whose comments and questions make the seminar into lively and collegial exchange of ideas and information. That is the long tradition we’re proud to maintain.
We could not have held this conference without the help of our co-sponsors: the American Antiquarian Society; Boston University’s Program in American & New England Studies; the Forest History Society; Historic Northampton; and UMass Amherst’s History Department and Public History Program. We are also grateful to the Society of American Foresters and the Collaborative for Educational Services for administering professional development credits for seminar attendees.
And of course our deepest appreciation goes out to everyone at Historic Deerfield, the Dublin Seminar’s longtime host and home. The care, skill, and commitment of the whole talented staff at Historic Deerfield is essential to the success of the annual seminar.
Our work continues. As part of our ongoing publications, we’ll prepare a Proceedings volume for this year’s seminar. And soon we’ll have announcements about the 2025 Dublin Seminar in New England Folklife!
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