Saturday, July 13
Long-distance participants arrive in Portland, Maine. Check into dorms.
Sunday July 14 [Official Start of the Institute]
Focus of day: Community building and exploring historical and modern geography of Portland, ME as a maritime community
9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Local participants arrive, check-in to the Portland Commons dorm. If you are very local, you can feel free to arrive just before 12pm and go right to the Cohen Center Classroom, Glickman 103, inside the Osher Map Library [1st floor, Glickman Family Library].
12:00-2:45 PM: Lunch at Osher Map Library: Introductions, Community Building, Overview of week: Maps as a guiding source. Introduction to Maps with Dr. Matthew Edney, Osher Chair in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine.
2:45-3:00 PM: Break
3:00-3:45 PM: Maps of Portland, Maine from the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartography Collections (Overview and Activity)
4:00 PM: Depart for Commercial Street and Portland Harbor. Dinner on your own.
5:45- 8:00 PM: Casco Bay Ferry Ride (Sunset run, guided historical narration). Be at the ferry terminal at 5:30pm.
Monday July 15:
Focus of the Day: Indigenous Geographies of the Dawnland
Map of the Day: Native-Land.ca
9:00-9:30 AM: Check-in circle and Map of the Day using maps protocol
9:30-11:30 AM: Indigenous History, Landscapes and Best Practices: New Approaches to Reframing and Conceptual Understanding with Akomawt Educational Initiative (endawnis Spears and Chris Newell)
11:45 AM: Depart for Thompson’s Point/Children’s Museum and Theatre
12:00 -1:00 PM: Lunch on your own (Thompson’s Point)
1:00-3:00 PM: Decolonizing Museum and K-12 Educational Spaces, Starr Kelly, Curator of Education and Exhibits, Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine [Meet in Theatre].
3:00-3:45 PM: Travel back to Osher Map Library and Break
4:00-5:30 PM: Building Community and Resilience in K-12 Schools: Teaching Maine’s Indigenous History in Portland Public Schools (PPS): Developing and Launching the K-12 Wabanaki curriculum in PPS, with Fiona Hopper, Social Studies Teacher Leader and Wabanaki Studies Coordinator at the Portland Public Schools.
6:00-8:00 PM: Welcome Dinner, University Events Room [Catered]
Tuesday July 16
Focus of the Day: Wabanaki Sense of Place
Map of the Day: Iyoka Eli-Wihtamakw Kǝtahkinawal /This Is How We Name Our Lands
9:00-9:30 AM: Check in circle & Map of the Day
9:45-10:45 AM: Bay of Herons short film and talkback with Mi’kmaw filmmaker Jared Lank.
10:45-11:00 AM: Break
11:00 AM to 12:15PM: Teaching with Maps: Working Session in grade-level groups in the Osher Map Library Reading Room, Observing and Analyzing Representations of Indigenous communities on historic maps of New England. [With Libby Bischof and Jared Lank].
12:15-1:00PM: Lunch Break [In Cohen Center or outside on picnic tables; lunch provided]
1:00-3:30 PM: Bounty film screening (Phip’s scalp proclamation and Penobscot legacy) and talkback with **Upstander Project (**Dr. Mishy Lesser from Upstander & Dawn Neptune Adams, Penobscot, Film producer). [In Cohen Center]
3:30-4:15 PM: Break
4:15 PM: Depart for Visit and Tour of Cushing’s Point Museum (South Portland Historical Society) at Bug Light Park with Seth Goldstein (Ship Building and Maritime History).
5:45 PM: Return to Dorms//Dinner on your own.
7:00-9PM: Optional Office Hours with Libby and Renee (Portland Commons Lounge)
Wednesday, July 17: (Start in Cohen Center Classroom and then travel to Damariscotta)
Focus of the Day: Re-Indigenizing Landscapes: Damariscotta Shell Middens
Map of the Day: Samuel de Champlain, Jean Berjon, and David Pelletier, Carte geographique de la Nouvelle Franse (1613). Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center. And: Marc Lescarbot, “Figvre de la terre nevve, grande riviere de Canada, et côtes de l’ocean en la nouvelle France,” in Histoire de la novvelle France, contenant les navigations, découvertes, & habitations faites par les François és Indes occidentales & nouvelle France (Paris: Jean Millot, 1607). OML/SCCE Collections.
9:00-9:30 AM: Opening Circle and Check In (Cohen Center classroom)
9:30 AM-11:30AM: Presentation on reinterpreting Wabanaki archeology, with hands-on lab and braiding milkweed cordage with Dr. Bonnie Newsom (Penobscot), Professor of Archeology, University of Maine.
11:30 AM-12:30PM Working lunch and discussion [Lunch will be provided; Cohen Center classroom]
12:45pm: Depart on Coach bus for Whaleback Shell Middens, Damariscotta with Dr. Bonnie Newsom
2:00-4:30 PM: Shell Midden Walk and Interpretation Activity (small groups) w/Bonnie Newson
4:45-7:00 PM: Free time in Damariscotta (and dinner on your own)
7:00 PM: Bus returns to Portland
Thursday, July 18: (Travel to Bath, ME)
Focus of the Day: Life in a Shipbuilding City: Bath, ME
Map of the Day: A. Ruger, Bird’s Eye View of the City of Bath Sagadahoc Co. Maine 1878 Looking North West, 1878, OML/SCCE Collections
9:00-9:30AM: Check in Circle
9:30AM-10AM: Introduction to Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps with Garrett Dash Nelson.
10:15 AM: Depart OML for Bath, Maine
11:15AM-1PM Lunch on your own in Bath and small group “Museum in the Streets” Activity/Walking Tour
1:15PM -4:00 PM: Sense of Place: Maine Maritime Museum Program and Visit
Maine Maritime Museum’s Sense of Place program is designed to introduce visitors to the maritime heritage of Bath and the varied ways this heritage and history has evolved and changed over time. The interdisciplinary curriculum introduces students to topics in environmental history and ecology, economics and civics, geography, Wabanaki studies, and US History and Globalization. We will meet with Sarah Timm, Director of Education, and Curator, Catherine Cyr. Ample time will be given for participants to explore the museum on their own.
4:00PM: Bus departs for USM/Portland
4:30-6:00 PM: Break and dinner on your own.
6:15-7:15 PM: Map Drawing in the Classroom Hands on Workshop with Renee Keul
Friday, July 19
Focus of the Day: Black Geographies in Southern Maine
Map of the Day: USGS Map showing Malaga Island: United States Geological Survey. Bath, ME [map] 1:62500. (Topographic), 1894. OML/SCCE Collections
9:00-9:30 AM: Check in Circle
9:30-11 AM: A Penobscot Sense of Place, with Tribal Historian James Eric Francis.
11AM-12PM: Map exploration exercise in the OML Reading Room
12-1:15 PM: Lunch in the Cohen Center (provided) and Break
1:30-3:30 PM: Malaga Island History Panel with Kate McBrien, Maine
State
Archivist, and Marnie Darling Voter Childress, Malaga Island
Descendent.
3:30-3:45 PM: Break
3:45-4:30 PM: Introduction to the Atlantic Black Box Project and Resources with Meadow Dibble.
4:30-5:30 PM: Break/Optional Lesson Planning Time in the OML
5:30-6:45 PM: Dinner (Pizza/Salad) in Cohen Center and book discussion: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
7:00-9:00 PM: Optional Office Hours (dorms) with Libby and Renee
Saturday, July 20
Focus of the Day: Community, Resilience and Artistic Reflections on Place
Map of the Day: People of the Dawnland: Wabanaki Tribes of the Northeast Coast (Anna B. from Harpswell, ME). OML/SCCE Collections
8:15am: Bus departs for Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay
10am-5pm: Indigo Arts Alliance “Deconstructing the Boundaries: The Land Fights Back” Symposium. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Lunch included. See Schedule and details here: https://www.mainegardens.org/events-calendar/deconstructing-the-boundaries-the-land-fights-back
5:15pm: Bus departs for USM/Portland Commons [Dinner on your own]
Sunday, July 21
Day Off: Participants are free to explore the area on their own; we are happy to provide recommendations for day trips!
—-------------------------Week 2: Portsmouth, Boston and New
Bedford—--------------------------
Monday, July 22 – Sunday, July 27, 2024
Monday, July 22nd
(Travel to New Hampshire and Boston)
Focus of the Day: Wrapping up Week 1 and Introduction to Boston’s Geography
Map of the Day: A. Ruger, Bird’s eye view of Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire, (J. J. Stoner, [1877]). Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.
[Have apartments packed and bags ready for departure prior to morning meeting]
8:45-9:30 AM: Maine wrap-up and Map of the Day (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)
9:45 AM: Depart Portland and Travel to Portsmouth, NH (bagged lunches on bus)
11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Arrive in Portsmouth, NH: Black Heritage Trail New Hampshire walk
12:30-1:45PM: Free time in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
2:00 PM: Bus departs for Boston
3:00-4:30 PM: Arrive at Emerson College for Dorm Check in at the Paramount, 555 Washington Street, Boston, MA.
4:45-6:00 PM: Walk or T to Leventhal Map and Education Center (LMEC), Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street. Lecture and Discussion: Mapping Boston Over Time, with Garrett Dash Nelson, LMEC President and Head Curator
6:00PM: Dinner on your own; walk/T back to Emerson dorms
Tuesday, July 23rd
Focus: Boston: Urban Black Geographies
Map of the Day: George W. Boynton, Plan of the city of Boston, (S.N. Dickinson, 1844). Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.
9:30 - 11:00 AM: Resistance and Activism: 1800’s Black Boston Walking Tour,
NPS Rangers/ Black Heritage Trail
Group Divides: Group A meets at African Meeting House, Group B meets at Faneuil Hall
11:45- 12:30PM Meet in Leventhal Center Learning Resource Center to discuss experiences (same place we met on Monday evening).
12:30-2:00 PM: Lunch on your own and travel to MA Historical Society (walk or T)
2:00-4:30 PM: Race and Resistance: K-12 Primary Source Session at Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street.
4:30 PM: Dinner and evening on your own
7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Office hours available to consult on projects with Libby, Adam and Renee. [Location TBD]
Wednesday, July 24
Focus of the Day: Landscape of Activism: Black Boston at the Turn of the 20th Century
Map of the Day: Urban atlases of Boston, MA using Atlascope
9:15-9:45 AM: Meet at Leventhal Map and Education Center (Boston Public
Library);
Check in circle and map of the day
9:45-10:45AM: Teaching with Maps: Envisioning Boston’s Black Migrations through Urban Atlases and the work of Allan Rohan Crite with Nicole Claris.
10:45AM-12:00 PM: Time on your own to work on projects in BPL
12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch on your own and travel by T to Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Meet at Huntington Ave entrance steps.
1:30-2:30 PM: Curatorial Tour of Art of the Americas Wing
2:30- 3:00PM Inquiry-Based Discussions with Art: Black and Indigenous New England
3:00- 5:00PM Time on your own in the MFA, Boston to explore the wider museum
Evening: Dinner on your own
7:00pm-9:00pm Optional Office Hours at Emerson with Libby, Adam, and Renee
Thursday, July 25th
Focus of the Day: Frederick Douglass, New Bedford, MA, and Whaling
Map of the Day: O.H. Bailey & Co., View of the city of New Bedford, Mass, (Leonard B. Ellis, [1876]). Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.
8:00 AM: Leave dorms for New Bedford (charter bus)
9:15-10:30 AM: Underground Railroad Walking tour with National Park Service
10:30-11:30 AM: Nathan and Polly Johnson House tour with New Bedford Historical12:45-2:45 PM: Visit to New Bedford Whaling Museum — Naomi Slipp, Douglas and Cynthia Crocker Endowed Chair for the Chief Curator & Director of Museum Learning. Group will be oriented to the museum, and then divided into two groups for an experience with their teaching vessel (indoors) and a session with Primary Sources in their Library and Archives (and then switch).
2:45-4:00 PM: Open time at New Bedford Whaling Museum
4:00-6:30 PM: Explore New Bedford and dinner on your own
6:30 PM: Depart for Boston
Friday, July 26th
Focus of the Day: Wrap up and Putting it all together: Mapping Community and Resilience
Map of the Day: John Foster and William Hubbard, A map of New-England, [1677]. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.
9:30 AM: Meet at Leventhal Center at Boston Harbor Hotel (Rowes Wharf)
9:30-10:00 AM: Tour Norman Leventhal’s Map collection at Boston Harbor
Hotel and
Map of the Day with Garrett Dash Nelson
10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Final project draft presentations and idea share and working lunch (provided)
12:00PM Travel from Rowes Wharf to Long Wharf
12:30PM Spectacle Island Trip by ferry from Long Wharf
1:00PM- 2:00PM Indigenous Boston Harbor, Speaker TBD
2:00PM- 3:30PM Time to explore, closing remarks
3:30PM Ferry returns to Long Wharf
*All participants are expected to fully participate in Friday’s activities
Those leaving Friday can then check out of dorms and depart for home.
Saturday, July 27th
Check out of dorms and depart for home
