Amanda Kay Gustin and Teresa Rogers will talk about the importance of archival collections.
Amanda talk will focus on the discovery and placement of records relating to equine history with research institutions – how to determine what belongs in a public collection, how to find the appropriate repository, and how to work with the staff of a research institution that might not specialize in equine history. Teresa will speak to her own experience of using what she calls ”archives witout walls” to find things that inform her equine history research and will show some examples.
Amanda Kay Gustin is the Director of Collections and Access at the Vermont Historical Society, where she works on statewide projects that examine and share Vermont’s history, including public programs, research projects, and exhibits, and supervises the work of the research library and museum collections. She holds degrees in history and museum studies from Middlebury College and Tufts University, and has held leadership positions with the American Association of State and Local History and the New England Museum Association.
Relevant to the Equine History Collective, she is also a lifelong horse person, a recovering eventer currently learning dressage with her BLM mustang. Her personal research focus of the moment is Morgan horse history, particularly the first Morgan horse, situating the myths and legends that have gathered around this extraordinary horse in the early American republic strategy of rhetorical nation-building.
Independent equine history researcher Teresa Rogers is a writer and editor who blogs about the history of horses, equine art, and horse figurines in twentieth century America. She has edited several horse books and magazine articles; her own writing has been featured in Arabian Horse Life magazine. Based in Southern California, Teresa also works with local historians, nonprofit groups, and faith-based organizations as an editor, strategic planning consultant, and grant writer. An award-winning broadcast journalist who worked in public media for many years, Teresa holds a BS degree in Broadcasting from Arizona State University.
Time: 18.00 Central European Time
Location: Zoom
Speakers: Amanda Kay Gustin and Teresa Rogers
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