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NEWSLETTER #01
Announcing Immersive Summer Series
We have been up to a great deal recently at Open House of History. After our inaugural summer last year and a steady stream of programs since then, it is my pleasure to announce this year’s summer series: Emotional Currents: Between Survival and Freedom—an immersive convergence of sound, art, video, performance, discussion, and environmental encounters exploring the emotional forces shaping life across time.
NEWSLETTER #02
Cars, and Jasper Stahl’s Emotional History of Waldoboro
Jasper Stahl, in his monumental two-volume history of Waldoboro published seventy-five years ago, wrote that the advent of cars had, "more than any other single factor ... dissipated" the antagonism between the village of Waldoboro and the farther reaches of the town's boundaries. You might wonder what “antagonism” he meant. Or why it was necessary to break the town up in this way.
NEWSLETTER #03
Meeting People Where They're At: How History Begins
How do we each place ourselves in history? By looking inward. History begins as a personal act of inquiry. As we ask how and why we have become who we are, we encounter the people, relationships, and experiences that shaped us. In pursuing those questions, we gradually discover ourselves embedded within a larger world.