September 2008
Hyde Park Free Library
Picturing America display and announcement begins in the Hyde Park Free Library Annex Gallery.
Picturing America announcement is posted on the Hyde Park Free Library website: http://www.hydeparklibrary.org/
with links to Picturing America website at:
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/.
Also, an advertising poster was created and posted on the website at:
http://www.hydeparklibrary.org/EVENTS_2008/PicturingAmericaFinal.jpg
and posted in many locations in the community.
September 2, 2008 - Hyde Park Central School District - Superintendent's Day, Display of some of the Picturing America Posters and Resource Book available to educators and public using online resources.
September 22, 2008 - Hyde Park Free Library Board of Trustee meeting,- Summary of events announced and program plans outline for duration of grant - September 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.
September 2008 - Mid-Hudson Teacher Center Director, Joseph Pesevento, agrees to co-sponsor Picturing America Events and help with online promotion and printing of posters for advertising.
September 2008 - Mid-Hudson Teacher Center Policy Board Meeting - Announcement of Mid-Hudson Teacher Center agreement to co-sponsor Picturing America Events and help with online promotion and printing and laminating of posters for advertising. Mid-Hudson Teacher Center agree to co-sponsor other programs and conference presentations
November 3, 2008 - Hyde Park Town Hall - Announcement which was televised and replayed on the local television station in Hyde Park - Channel 22, US Cablevision.
Veteran's Day Eve Program
http://www.hydeparklibrary.org/EVENTS_2008/vets_20081111.html
Veteran participated in photograph sessions and created Oral history recollections of their war service and the importance to them of flying the flag as shown in their American Legion Calendar.
Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917, 1917 from the Picturing America Collection was used as a visual reminded of "Flying the Flag".
November 7, 2008 - Webinar Hyde Park Free Library Annex
November 10, 2008 - Veteran program Hyde Park Free Library Annex
November 13, 2008 - Hyde Park Central School District Board Meeting, Public Participation - Announcement which was televised and replayed on the local television station in
Hyde Park - Channel 22, US Cablevision.
November 20, 2008 - Picturing America Program at the Hyde Park Free Library Annex
January 30, 2009 - Submitted grant proposal for the We The People Bookshelf
"Picturing America" Grant.
March 7, 2009 - Presentation at the NYSCATE Hudson Valley Regional Conference. In attendance were 294 educators. A display table had Picturing America Program materials along with some Picturing America Posters. The Presentation given by Richard Taylan was entitled "Picturing America Resources and Oral Histories" and was attended by 24 educators. Demonstrated were the online Resources and dealt with creating "Oral History Projects or Presentations with student and other teachers. Online Resource included the Picturing America Program, digital cameras and iPhoto software.
Picturing America Resource Book
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/educators.php?subPage=edu_guide
LINKS:
Picturing America http://picturingamerica.neh.gov
EDSITEment http://www.edsitement.neh.gov/
NEH Bookshelf http://www.wethepeople.gov/bookshelf/index.html
The We The People Bookshelf Grant proposal and projected project was mentioned as a model for other to emulate in current and future projects.
Co-sponsors: Hyde Park Free Library and the Mid-Hudson Teacher Center
Friends Hyde Park Free Library meeting,
April 14, 2009 -- Announced the We The People Bookshelf Grant. was received and announced the plans for the program of the grant running from May 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010.
Hyde Park Free Library Board of Trustee meeting, April 23, 2009 - Announced the We The People Bookshelf Grant was received Summary of events announced and program plans outline for duration of grant - September 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.
April 27, 2009 - Mid-Hudson Teacher Center Policy Board Meeting - Announced the We The People Bookshelf Grant was received by the Hyde Park Free Library Summary of events announced and program plans outline for duration of grant - September 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.
Plans were set forward to have a series of workshops for teachers and librarian to promote and use Picturing America and The People Bookshelf Grant resources.
May 12, 2009 - Submitted Summary report online to the Picturing America Program.
June 3, 2009 - Frank Lloyd Wright video conference with the Guggenheim Museum held at Haviland Middle School.
Picturing America poster "Fallingwater".
June 23, 2009 - Frank Lloyd Wright video conference with the Guggenheim Museum held at at Hyde Park Free Library.
Picturing America poster "Fallingwater".
July 4, 2009 - 4th of July Parade
Quadricentennial Theme with Picturing America poster
"The Last of the Mohicans"
August 15 - September 30, 2009 -
Picturing America and the World of 1609 and Beyond
Special Exhibition in the Annex.
Picturing America posters:
N. C. Wyeth, Cover Illustration for The Last of the Mohicans, 1919
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, 1935-1939
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936
Emanuel Leutze, "Washington Crossing the Delaware", 1851
Albert Bierstadt, Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California, 1865
John James Audubon, American Flamingo, 1838
Walker Evans, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1929
William Van Alen, The Chrysler Building, 1926-1930
Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917, 1917
Other posters on display in the Main Library Building.
September 26, 2009 - The Hyde Park Free Library is listed in the community program Cross Roads of History, September 26, 2009, in celebration of the Quadricentennial event. Richard Taylan volunteered to present at a booth about Henry Hudson and the Half Moon, created by Sue Delorenzo, Event Chairperson. The "Half Moon" ship, that was created by Linda and Richard Taylan, which ventured down Route 9 in the 4th of July parade and appeared in front of the Annex on the Summer Festival, August 8th and the World of 1609 presentation on September 13th, made its final appearance again in front of the Annex on Hyde Park Cross Roads of History Day,
September 26th. The "Half Moon" was decked out, in the Dutch tradition, flying the flags of 1609.
A special thank you to Board members, Friends of the HPFL, Staff, and Patrons who attended the World of 1609 and Beyond ... Picturing America Presentation on September 13, 2009.
Also, a special thank you the Janet Battistoni, and her children's book club that created a 9 foot mural depicting event told in the "Owl's Journey" by Maura D. Shaw, in celebration of the Quadricentennial event.
November 10, 2009 - Veteran program Hyde Park Free Library Annex
Honoring Veterans Program - using "Freedom of Speech" , "Ally Day, May 17" posters.
and We The People Book Shelf Book: On The Wings of Heros.
A special Veteran's Day program was held November 10, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Honoring Veterans - Helen Myers World War II Manuscript Sampler.
This program featured a DVD with Carney Rhinevault, Hyde Park Town Historian. This sampler included some of the stories included in Helen Myers World War II Manuscript about veterans who served in World War II and life in hometown Hyde Park during World War II.
The DVD in High-Definition, was created by Richard Taylan, Trustee of Hyde Park Free Library, as part of programming related to two grants he received for the library from the:
National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/
Picturing America http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/
and
We the People Bookshelf Grant
http://www.wethepeople.gov/bookshelf/picturingamerica.html
The Friends of the Hyde Park Free Library provided refreshments.
November 11, 2009 - On Veterans Day, Benedict McCafree,
Senior staff member for Congressman, Scott Murphy, presented an American flag, that has flown over the U.S. Capitol,
to the Hyde Park Free Library in honor of local veterans' service. This display is located near the Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech poster and the Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917 poster. This new flag will be displayed in the library on December 7, 2009.
See: http://www.hydeparklibrary.org/EVENTS_2009/veterans_20091111.html
October 29, 2009 - Beth Kolp - Community Read with Quadricentennial Theme This program included the We The People Book Shelf book: Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving along with the Rip Van Winkle also by Washington Irving. Also highlighted was the Picturing America Thomas Cole, "The Oxbow" 1836 poster and Hudson River School of painters.
A Rip Van Winkle scarecrow was created and displayed at a contest at the Farmer's Market has been on display in the library to help promote the Community Read event.
January 13 to February 3, 2010 -
Creating Projects Using Picturing America Resources and HD Video Cameras
Workshop at Duchess County BOCES-Beta Site
Sponsored By: Mid-Hudson Teacher Center
January 30, 2010 - Submitted grant proposal for the We The People Bookshelf "A More Perfect Union" Grant. Many of the posters, like Alexander Gardner's, "Abraham Lincoln" and related images will be used in this new grant endeavor.
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