Vernacular Architecture Forum/New England Chapter ~ Annual Meeting

VAF-New England Annual Meeting
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA

8:30 - 9:15            Registration & Coffee 

9:15 – 9:20            Welcome~ Rick Greenwood, VAF-NE President

9:20 – 10:20         Keith Morgan, The Backstory of Planning:  The Olmsted Firm and the Brookline Landscape
                             *45 minutes with 15 minutes for questions/discussion

10:20 – 11:20         Neil Larson, Early Suburban Architecture in Newton, MA, 1830-1850
                             *45 minutes with 15 minutes for questions/discussion

11:20 – 12:00         Milda Richardson, Jonas Mulokas: Architecture Inspired by Lithuanian Vernacular and American Modernism
                             *30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions/discussion

12:00 – 12:30        Annual Meeting (Members) ~ Secretary’s Report; Treasurer’s Report; Field Trip; Report; Board Nominations and Vote

12:00 – 1:30          Lunch: Sit down and eat at an optional, informal lunch of sandwiches, drinks, etc, at the Oliver Wight Tavern Garden View Room (right next door to the Conference Center), available for $20/person.  Other options are also available at the museum.

1:30 – 2:10            Arron Sturgis, Early African-American Meetinghouses of New England
                                   *30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions/discussion

2:20 – 3:00           Catherine Zipf, Mapping Colonial Newport:  The Challenges and Triumphs of Digital Research
                                   *30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions/discussion