RSVP for Local History and Historic Preservation Conference

media release: 2020 Local History and Historic Preservation Conference online from October 21 through 23! Find the full schedule here. Register and pay your conference registration fee at www.whslocalhistory.com. Your registration fee includes all live plenary events, sessions, and networking events on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday as well as access to recordings of all sessions and plenary events for one month following the conference. Registration is due by Oct. 16.

Registration is $50 for all attendees. Members of the Wisconsin Historical Society are eligible for a 10% discount. Become a member today!

Join us for over 30 learning sessions, including two different perspectives on storytelling:

Digital Storytelling: Engaging Next-Gen Audiences, Wednesday Oct 21, 3:00 – 4:00 pm CDT: Is your organization ready to cultivate new audiences? Museums and cultural organizations are increasingly employing digital platforms to engage with next-generation audiences. Join Angela Titus, Assistant Deputy Director and Chief Program Officer, Wisconsin Historical Society, for a panel discussion highlighting creative engagement through digital storytelling.

Panelists include:

Alana White, Giant Spoon, leads global strategy and media for this full-service advertising agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Angela Carone, Director of Podcasts at Turner Classic Movies (TCM) leads a team of reporters and producers who make documentary podcasts about classic Hollywood.

Freedome Bradley-Ballentine, The Old Globe Theatre, serves a dual role as Associate Artistic Director and Director, Arts Engagement for The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California.

Justin Weber, senior manager for communications, membership, and annual giving with San Diego Zoo Global, manages what is the largest membership of any zoo or aquarium worldwide.

Wisconsin Historical Society Press Author Spotlight – Jerry Apps, Wednesday Oct 21, 2:15 – 2:45 pm CDT: Jerry Apps will read from and share a few highlights from his most recent Wisconsin Historical Society Press book, When the White Pine was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin. When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging, of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. He explores the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover (most of them doomed to fail), successful reforestation work, and the legacy of the lumber and wood products industries.