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The 26th Conference on New York State History
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| 8:00 PM The Wendell Tripp Lecture in New York State History Welcome: Christine Ward, NY State Archivist "What's Elvis got to do with it? Palatine migration and New York's
colonial legacy" |
Saturday, June 11
8:00-10:00 AM Registration / Marshall Hall
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast / Alumni Lounge
8:00-12:00 Exhibits / Marshall Hall
8:45-10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions
Cayuga County Topics / Marshall Auditorium
"Pricing the Land: Speculation, Money and Settlement on the Early
American Frontier - The Cayuga Land Claim Case Study"
Scott W. Anderson, SUNY Cortland
"Losing Local Power: The Coevolution of Socioeconomic and Physical
Forces in Cayuga County, 1800-1900"
Eric J. Greenfield, SUNY ESF
Comment: Robert Devino, Finkelstein Memorial Library
Individual Papers / Marshall 213
"From Protestant International to New York Provincial: Language and
Ethnicity in New Paltz, 1678-1834"
Eric Roth, Huguenot Historical Society
Comment: Joseph S. Tiedeman, Loyola Marymount University
"Niagara Falls and Nationality in the Early Republic"
Tom Kanon, Tennessee State Library and Archives
Comment: Thomas Chambers, Niagara University
10:15-10:30 Break / Alumni Lounge
10:30 AM-Noon Concurrent sessions
Public Health / Marshall Auditorium
"Yellow Fever in New York City, 1791-99"
Bob Arnebeck, Independent
"A Tale of Three Cities: Community Responses to the 1918 Flu
Epidemic"
Teresa K. Lehr, SUNY Brockport
Comment: Eric v.d. Luft, Upstate Medical University
Individual Papers / Marshall 213
"Jacob A. Riis' Campaign to Bring Nature into the Tenements"
Joni Ciehomski, SUNY Buffalo
Comment: Natalie Naylor, Hofstra University (emerita)
"The French Empire in the Chautauqua Region, 1608-1763"
Jacob Ludes III, N.E. Association of Schools and Colleges
Comment: Edward Knoblauch, College of St. Rose
12:00 Noon Lunch / Alumni Lounge
Speaker: Victor F. Escamilla, Columbia University
Why New York? A Jazz Question
Registration form
Onondaga Historical Ass'n tour $5
Erie Canal Museum tour $5
Digital workshop $5
All room prices are per bed; if you wish to share a room please give
names.
Parking is free for those staying in the dorms. Those staying off-campus
should park at Irving Garage on Irving Avenue; parking passes will be
provided by SUNY ESF.
Thursday night $32
Friday night $32
OFF-CAMPUS LODGING
Those who wish off-campus lodging must make their own reservations. A
block of rooms is being held until May 10 at the Genesee Grande Hotel,
1060 East Genesee Street at University Avenue; the rate is $76 per room,
single or double. You must call them direct at (800) 365-HOME or (315)
476-4212. Rooms may be available after the cut-off date but the
availability and rate are not guaranteed after that date.
DIRECTIONS TO SUNY ESF
From Albany: Thruway to I-690; use exit 13, turn left on Townsend Street,
left on Adams Street, right on Irving Avenue to campus.
From Rochester: Thruway to I-690; bear right on I-81, then use exit 18,
left on Adams Street, right on Irving Avenue to campus.
From Binghamton: I-81 to exit 18, turn right on Adams Street, right on
Irving Avenue to campus.
From Watertown: I-81 to exit 18 (see Rochester directions).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Committee
Robert Arnold, New York State Archives
Marla Bennett, SUNY ESF
Thomas Chambers, Niagara University
Michael Groth, Wells College
Lisa Keller, SUNY Purchase
Edward Knoblauch, New York History Net
Natalie Naylor, Hofstra University (emerita)
Edythe Ann Quinn, Hartwick College
Eric Roth, Huguenot Historical Society
William H. Siener, Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
Institutional Partners
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs
New York History Net
New York State Archives
Onondaga Historical Association
SUNY ESF
Field Horne, Conference Chair
Box 215
Saratoga Springs NY 12866-0215
field@spa.net
Telephone: 518-587-4962