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"Celebrate '98: A Tribute to the First Women's Rights
Convention"
Ninety-minute documentary for broadcast and
retail distribution, including historical reenactments, speeches, symposiums and
performances celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights convention in
Seneca Falls, New York. The official video of Celebrate '98, 1999.
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"Visual
Gifts: The Sculpture of George Greenamyer"
Thirty-minute documentary for educational
outreach, promotion and broadcast, produced for Careswell Sculpture and Ironworks of
Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1998.
"The Bloody
Massacre on King Street"
Audio and video components for the
Bostonian Society's exhibit on the Boston Massacre, including event reenactments and
excerpts from interviews with interpreters.
--Appearing at Boston's Old State House through May, 1999. Produced in 1998
"At the
Sign of the Golden Ball"
Ten-minute museum orientation and
eighteen-minute educational outreach piece produced for the Golden Ball Tavern Museum in
Weston, Massachusetts, 1998.
--Broadcast on The History Channel, Winter 1999.
"The
Mayflower's Story"
Fifteen-minute educational piece for grades
3-8 distributed to schools nationally by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants,
1997
--Finalist for 1998 Telly Award for outstanding non-broadcast production.
"The
Pilgrim Monument"
Ten-minute orientation and "virtual
walk" up the monument, with captioning, to be used for ADA-compliance by the Pilgrim
Monument and Provincetown Museum, 1997.
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"Orchard
House"
Sixteen-minute pre-tour orientation to the
former home of Louisa May Alcott in Concord, Massachusetts, including interview with
historic interpreter Jan Turnquist. Also used by Orchard House for educational outreach
and resale, 1996.
--Finalist for 1997 Telly Award, for outstanding non-broadcast production.
--Broadcast on The History Channel, Spring 1998.
"When the
Boys Came Marching Home"
Oral history presentation designed as part
of post-World War II exhibit for the Bostonian Society at Boston's Old State House, 1996.
"Battleship
Massachusetts"
Twenty-minute orientation for school
groups, Scouts overnights and others introducing the history of "Big Mamie" and
her crew, for Battleship Massachusetts in Fall River, 1996.
"Memorial
Hall Museum"
Twelve-minute open-captioned orientation
highlighting the museum and its collections, including interviews with the museum's
curator and director, for Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, 1996.
--Broadcast on The History Channel, 1996
"Old Colony
Historical Society"
Thirty-minute museum orientation and area
history for the Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton, 1995
--Broadcast on The History Channel, 1996.
"Northern
Forest Heritage Park: Campaign for Heritage"
Fundraising presentation designed for
capital campaign of museum and recreated logging camp, 1995. Finalist for 1996 Telly Award
for outstanding non-broadcast production.
"The Sole
of the City: Shoeworkers and Shoes in Lynn, Massachusetts"
Fifteen-minute history of the shoe industry
in Lynn, to be used primarily as an educational outreach program for school children by
the Lynn Historical Society, 1995.
"Welcome to
Storrowton Village"
Six-minute orientation to Storrowton
Village in West Springfield, designed to give the viewer a brief history and explanation
of village, including reenactments with costumed interpreters, 1995.
"The Trees
Still Grow: A History of Berlin, New Hampshire"
A thirty-minute documentary about the
logging and paper mill industries in Berlin, and how the city has evolved around them,
using original music, archival film and photos, produced for the Northern White Mountains
Chamber of Commerce, 1994.
--Broadcast on WENH-TV (New Hampshire Public Television), June 1995
--Broadcast on The History Channel, October 1995 - 1997
"Walter
Johnson Remembers Johnson Quarry"
Oral history interview incorporated with
archival footage of Rockport quarry in 1920s, used in exhibits by Halibut Point State Park
in Rockport, and the Commonwealth Museum in Boston, 1994.
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"Rockport"
Thirty-minute heritage tourism presentation
produced for the Rockport Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade for resale, 1993.
"Longfellow's
Wayside Inn"
Historical documentary on the famous inn,
including oral histories and archival film footage, produced for the Wayside Inn, 1990.
--Broadcast on WCVB-TV5 (Boston) in September, 1992
--Broadcast on The History Channel, September, 1995
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