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Virginia
Handy (email
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| Profile
last updated: 10/05/05 |
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Address:
3503 Rock Edwards Dr., Sodus, MI 49126-9707
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County:
Berrien
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Phone
(w): 269/925-3836
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Phone
(h): 269/925-3836
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Fax:
269/925-3836
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| E-mail:
Virginia
Handy (logcabincrafts@qtm.net) |
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| Academic
Affiliation: Western Michigan University |
| Non-academic
affiliation: Log Cabin Society of Michigan |
| Degree:
B.A., Cum Laude, 1956 Western Michigan University |
| Major:
English and Librarianship |
| Minor:
French and History |
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| Specialization
areas: Architecture; Area Studies: Michigan; Languages: French;
Literature: English, American, Canadian; Autobiography/Biography;
Music History/Criticism; Classics; Natural History/Heritage; Comparative
Literature; Oral History; Communications; Period Studies: Pioneer
Era; Conservation/Cultural Heritage; Cultural Geography; Perservation;
Film History and Criticism; Folklore/Folklife; Urban Studies; History:
1840 Log Cabin Campaign; Other: Author of book, "Flax Craft"
(2002) |
| Implementing
projects as: Consultant/Planner, Presenter/Panelist, Project Evaluator |
| Project
types: Live Events Exhibitions, School Projects, Media, New Technology |
| Areas
willing to participate: Planning
Projects, Developing Projects, Research |
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| Past
experience: Planned Log Cabin Day at Palmer Park as a Detroit
300 event with professionals from the MHC Touring Directory on June
24, 2001; for 16 years have coordinated Log Cabin Days, and in 2002
at 82 places; many programs & hands-on spinning for schools and
fairs, log cabin displays, etc. |
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Suggestions
for public humanities projects:
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A book on log cabins of Michigan
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A touring program on log cabins to be available on CD or tape
with displays.
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Sponsorship of log cabin essays in schools (Michigan week)
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A log cabin program with building techniques demonstrated at Mich.
State Fair
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With teachers, development of a log cabin unit for 5th grades
all over the state
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| Comments:
Archives/library with 1,400 books is in farmhouse on 1860 farm
of Civil War veteran Rock S. Edwards with many links to American history.
Flax is grown here. |
