NCPH News and conference updates March 6, 2013 – Early registration ends March 11

07 March 2013 – editors

NEWS

• New Issue of TPH  A new issue of The Public Historian will be appearing in libraries and subscribers’ mailboxes soon.  Table of Contents here.
• March Newsletter  Print copies of Public History News are arriving in members’ mailboxes this week.

NCPH CONFERENCE UPDATES

• Only a Few Days Left to Save!  Register for the meeting by midnight Monday to save up to $20.  The early bird registration ends March 11.  And, remember to book your room at the Delta Ottawa City Centre by Tuesday, March 12 to save.   Two blocks away, we’ve reserved overflow rooms at the Minto Suite Hotel, also for $159/night CDN (until March 22!) Call 800. 267. 3337 and use group reservation #582113.
• Program Co-chair’s Thoughts About #NCPH2013. Check out this Canada’s History podcast with Michelle Hamilton.
• Don’t Miss Saturday’s Rideau Canal Tour!  The Rideau Canal is one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century and the best preserved example of a canal built in the great age of canal-building. Still fully operational, in 2007, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tour will start in downtown Ottawa and include visits to the Bytown Museum, Merrickville, and the Gate Shop in Smiths. Participants will have a chance to talk to the people who make these remarkable replicas about their work.
• Diefenbunker and Horaceville Tour Changes. These two tours are rescheduled to run 1 hour later—from 10am – 2pm.  We hope this will enable more of you to attend both the Saturday morning Awards Breakfast and Keynote talk with John Milloy and to enjoy an excursion far from the conference hotel!
• Who’s Your Audience?  Submit your own 1-2 minute video to our first Annual Meeting Youtube Video Contest by March 11!  Enter to win a Canada’s History prize package or a one-year membership with NCPH!
• Topics for Dine Arounds due March 11. Let us know at ncph[at]iupui.edu if you have a discussion topic in mind and would like to be a Dine Around facilitator.  Facilitators make Thursday (4/18) night dinner reservations at a nearby restaurant (see p. 6 in Program), and agree to lead their group to dinner.  Topics so far are: “Interpreting Women’s History at Historic Sites,” “Re-connecting Material Culture to the Spiritual Realm,” “Have Cable Series like American Digger and America Unearthed Complicated or Facilitated the Role of the Public Historian?” and “Public Historians in the ‘History Wars’.”