| Description |
1 online resource (263 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- PART I Introduction -- Bringing History to Life -- PART II Defining Living History: Or, How Living History Came to Be -- 1 Revisiting Living History: A Business, An Art, A Pleasure, An Education -- 2 Living Historical Farms -- PART III Planning and Managing: Or, The Business End of the Bull -- 3 Visitor Comfort, Safety, and Access at a Living History Site -- 4 How to Hire the Best Person for Your Living History Site |
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5 Friends Indeed: Creating a Successful Museum Volunteer Program -- 6 Planning Living History Programs and Facilities: Seven Areas of Concern -- PART IV Teaching and Learning: Or, Interpretation is a Many-Splendored Thing -- 7 Choosing Your Method: Strengths and Weaknesses of Interpretive Techniques -- 8 Reconnecting with Agriculture: Practical Approaches -- 9 First-Person Interpretation: Perspectives on Interpreter-Visitor Communication -- 10 Historically Correct Trade Craft Presentations: Are They Possible? A Question to Provoke More Questions |
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11 Special Events and Their Impact on Museums: The Eleven Commandments of Public Programs -- 12 Utilizing Living History Hobby Resources -- 13 Using Their Voices: Engaging Cultural Communities in Living History -- PART V Living Collections: Or, Putting the Life in Living History -- 14 Breeds and Seeds -- 15 Management Policies for Living Collections -- 16 Living with Livestock: A Primer on Livestock Program Planning and Implementation -- PART VI Researching and Collecting: Or, The Right Stuff -- 17 Sketch of a Theory for Outdoor History Museums |
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18 Tier Levels and Collections Management: Adapting Traditional Museum Approaches for Historic Site Use -- 19 The Right Stuff: How to Get It -- 20 Attitudes Toward Machinery -- 21 Acquisition and Restoration of Appropriate Machinery for Living Historical Sites -- 22 Serving Two Masters: Accurate Costuming for Small Historic Sites -- 23 Connections: Forethought in Interpretation -- 24 The Basics of Writing Furnishing Plans -- PART VII Rewards and Challenges: Or, Growing and Evolving -- 25 Living Things Grow and Evolve: The Evolution and Expansion of Living History |
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26 Sowbelly and Seedbanks: The Living History Museum as a Process Repository -- PART VIII Further Reading -- Living History Highpoints: A Bibliographic Essay -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Cliff
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McCabe, Susan J
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Seelhorst, Mary
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| ISBN |
9780429763519 |
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0429763514 |
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