| | Rome - an insider's view  Each year, members of Historic New England's Appleton Circle travel internationally. In October 2007, the destination was Rome, where the group spent eight days touring museums, visiting private palaces, and meeting members of leading families and learning about the city from them. Click here to view our album of photographs.
Appleton Circle members are committed to preserving New England's past, and ensuring Historic New England's continued ability to research, collect, and share our rich cultural heritage for years to come. Click here for more information on the Appleton Circle. | | Help us plan our next exhibition Please take a moment to answer a few questions that will help us determine the topic of our next traveling exhibition. Click here to access our online survey. Historic New England's collection includes more than one million archival items, 120,000 objects, and thirty-six historic sites. We share our collections at the sites and, more broadly, through traveling exhibitions that are hosted at partner museums across the region. Please take a few minutes to let us know your opinions on the proposed exhibition topics. Your feedback helps us so much in creating exhibitions that you want to see. | For more than twenty years, Historic New England has welcomed school children to its historic properties. For the past three years, we have participated in a pilot program on performance management developed by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), to develop a new approach for evaluating the quality and educational impact of these school programs. Historic New England and five other pilot organizations from across the country developed an innovative survey tool and gathered data at the pilot sites. The final report quantified the teacher and student reactions to school programs, facilities, and visitor services. Historic New England's Pierce House and the Otis House education programs were evaluated. Our overall score for the quality and level of satisfaction was 9.7 out of ten. In addition, we scored statistically higher than the other groups in five of ten core measures related to overall quality. And on the questions that related to learning style and our museum educators, we again dramatically outperformed the others in five out of ten key areas. Click here for more information about our education programs. | | Plant of the month Sweet Olive, Osmanthus fragrans, is this month's special purchase available at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses.
 This small shrub really shines during cool nights in the winter. It has shiny dark leaves and clusters of small, highly fragrant white flowers. When the sun is out a large plant can fill the air with a wonderful fragrance reminiscent of a gardenia. They require well-drained sandy soil, and no heavy salt fertilizers. The Lyman Estate Greenhouses have wonderful windowsill sized plants that sell for $24. Brighten up your winter with one of these special shrubs.
The greenhouses are open Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. on Thursdays). For more information call 781-891-4882, ext. 244. Historic New England members receive a 10% discount, and Garden & Landscape members receive a 15% discount at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses. For Garden and Landscape membership information click here. | | Interns and fellows This fall, five interns worked on projects that will further our mission of preserving and presenting the region's heritage. Rogan Motter drew on his interest in Federal furniture and research in Historic New England's impressive collection to create a special tour of the Rundlet-May House that connects the social and professional life of James Rundlet and early nineteenth-century America with the house furniture. Denisse Rubio assisted with teaching at the Pierce House in addition to researching and developing curriculum for the new Quincy House programs, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Lauren Miller updated the finding aid to the photographs and negatives in the Riegel Family Collection. These images provide a wonderful record of activities at "Riegel Point," the family's southern Connecticut estate. Jennifer Vernali processed glass plate and film negatives from the Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection that capture the political and personal life of President Calvin Coolidge in New England. Miller and Vernali's projects resulted in updated collection finding aids, which will increase access to these important documents. Nathan Sullivan worked with the development team on donor prospect research and assisted with various tasks related to the online auction and gala preparations. For more information on Historic New England's intern program contact Jennifer Pustz. | | International exchange  Thirteen visitors from Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Montenegro visited the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm and Coffin House. Participants included representatives of historical museums, and environmental and land conservation organizations in Central Europe. The group was particularly interested in Historic New England as a model of preservation through membership and private philanthropy, concepts just beginning to take root in many former Communist countries. Historic New England also hosted Katarina Voskova, a professor of architecture in Slovakia, for three days, introducing her to preservation and property care colleagues doing similar preservation work.
| | The perfect gift Fulfill your New Year's resolution to support your community and show your loved ones how much you care by giving them the gift of membership - a gift they'll appreciate all year long when they receive exclusive benefits including: -
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