Good afternoon,
The DC Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
is pleased to announce the
schedule of events for Archives Week, October 8-14, 2000. The DC Caucus
and several local archives
will host a variety of special programs to promote archives and archival
collections in the
Washington, DC metropolitan region.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month and Archives Week, the
Washington Area Performing Arts
Video Archive (WAPVA) and the Washingtoniana Division of the District of
Columbia Public Library
will screen Sins of Sor Juana by Karen Zacarias, Theater of the First
Amendment, on Tuesday,
October 10, 2000 at 6:30 p.m. in the Washingtoniana Division on the
third floor of the Martin
Luther King Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW. The play relates Sor
Juana's navigation through
romance, treachery, repression and passion. It won the Charles
MacArthur Award for Outstanding New
Play at the Helen Hayes Awards Ceremony this year. For additional
information, call Patricia
Pasqual at (202) 727-2313.
On Thursday, October 12, 2000, the DC Caucus of MARAC will host its 3rd
Annual DC Metropolitan Area
Archives Fair at the Smithsonian Institution's Ripley Center from 12:30
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The
Archives Fair is an opportunity for people to learn about archival
collections in and around DC.
Because Washington, DC is our nation's capitol, the collections in the
region relate to local,
national, and international affairs. There will be "exhibits" on
archival collections at several
of the Smithsonian museums, the National Archives and Records
Administration, the Manuscript
Division of the Library of Congress, the Washingtoniana Division of the
DC Public Library, the
George Washington University, the Catholic University of America, the
Arlington County Public
Library, the Space Business Archives, the American Red Cross Archives,
and the History Factory
along with computer demonstrations and videotape showings. In addition
there will be two special
programs. At 2:30 p.m., Dr. Frank Burke, Former Acting Archivist of
the United States, will
discuss archives, archivists, and the importance of preserving
historical documents. Several
archivists will share stories about their experiences, both good and
bad, starting at 4:00 p.m. To
learn more about the 3rd Annual DC Metropolitan Area Archives Fair,
contact Ms. Kristine Kaske at
(202) 357-3133.
On Friday, October 13, the National Archives Assembly will host a panel
discussion on archival
impacts of the closing of the Panama Canal Commission. Panelists will
discuss the following
issues: records ownership and appraisal, the deterioration of 19th
Century construction drawings,
and the expansion of the National Archives record holdings. Moderated
by Lisa Haralampus, Assembly
President, the panelists include Thomas Cotter, Appraisal Archivist for
the Panama Canal
Commission, Patrice Brown, Panama Canal Records Subject Area Specialist,
and Mary Lynn
Ritzenthaler, Records Conservator. The panel discussion will be held in
the National Archives Main
Building Theater (Pennsylvania Avenue & 7th Street) from 9:45 a.m. to
11:15a.m. For more
information, call Jennie Guilbaud at (301) 713-7110 x27
On Saturday October 14, 2000, The Peabody Room of the Georgetown Public
Library will host a lecture
entitled House Histories - Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in
Georgetown by Bill
Lebovich, an Architectural Historian. The lecture will be held in the
Peabody Room at the
Georgetown Public Library ( Wisconsin & R Street, NW) at 10:30 a.m.
Bill Lebovich worked as the
architectural historian on the Historic American Buildings Survey of
Georgetown. This study
resulted in the publication of a number of fascinating volumes detailing
the ownership and
architectural histories of houses and commercial buildings. He now has
his own business doing
buildings research. He will speak about how to do building histories
with special reference to his
experiences on the HABS Georgetown project. For more information,
contact Peggy Appleman at (202)
282-0214.
The George Washington University Library is pleased to present "Bright
Stars Through the Perilous
Fight: Men and Women Who Would Be President." Exhibit hours are Monday
through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5
p.m. (October 2, 2000 - January 26, 2001). The exhibit is located in
the Gelman Library at The
George Washington University (2130 H Street, NW). Opening during the
height of the 2000 United
States presidential race, this exhibition will showcase items from the
vast political Americana
collection of brothers Steven and Gary Cohen. Unlike most exhibitions of
this kind, "Bright Stars"
will highlight candidates who lost their election bids. Buttons,
photographs, cartoons, textiles,
and numerous artifacts will be used to trace campaigns from the
Jackson/Adams contest of the 1820s
to the Gore/Bush election. Also-rans Henry Clay, John C. Breckinridge,
William Jennings Bryan, John
Davis, Wendell Wilkie, George McGovern, and others will be featured.
This exhibition is free and
open to the public. For additional information please contact, (202)
994-7549.
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For additional information on Archives Week and the above events, please
contact James Cassedy at
(301) 713-7110 x258.