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Exhibition Reviews


Edward T. Linenthal and Kym S. Rice
Contributing Editors

Introduction
The contributing editors encourage readers to suggest representations of history in American public culture that might be reviewed. In addition to continuing coverage of museum exhibitions, they are interested in covering living history projects, historical pageants and reenactments, memorials, historic preservation projects, and virtual museums. Please contact:
Edward T. Linenthal Kym S. Rice
Department of Religious Studies Museum Studies Program
University of Wisconsin George Washington University
Oshkosh, WI 54901 2035 F St., NW
etl@uwosh.edu Washington, DC 20052
  kym@gwu.edu
 

     We would like to thank the American Association for State and Local History for providing information on the work of its members.


"The Rankins of Cherry Hill: Struggling with the Loss of Their World." Historic Cherry Hill, 523 1/2 S. Pearl St., Albany, NY 12202–1111.
     Permanent exhibition, revised spring 2001. April–June and Oct.–Dec., Tu–F tours hourly 12–3, Sa tours hourly 10–3, Su tours hourly 1–3; July–Sept., Tu-Sa tours hourly 10–3; Su tours hourly 1–3. Closed on major holidays; adults $4, seniors $3, college students $2, and children 6–17 $1. Orientation gallery of 7 text panels (17 running ft.) and 1-hour tour of house. Liselle LaFrance, director; Rebecca Watrous, education director; Maxine Lorang, researcher; Christine Robinson and Lori Fisher, former curators; Tamara Plakins Thornton, Patricia West, Maud Ayson, Harvey Green, Barbara Carson, Brian Greenberg, George McDaniel, Peter O'Connell, Susan Schreiber, consultants; Wayland Designs, exhibition designers. The text of the orientation panels is reprinted in installments in Historic Cherry Hill's newsletter, Keeping Place, Keeping Pace (Spring 2001–Fall 2002).
     Kittie Putman and the Cherry Hill Household, 1860–1884. By Rebecca Watrous. (Albany: Historic Cherry Hill, 2001. 354 pp. $20 for schools and libraries, $25 for others, ISBN 0-94336-609-7.) Teacher's resource book for grade 4.
     Different Voices, Different Truths: The 1827 Murder at Cherry Hill. By Rebecca Watrous. (Albany: Historic Cherry Hill, 1990. 279 pp. $20 for schools and libraries, $25 for others, ISBN 0-94336-608-9.) Teacher's resource book for grades 7–8.
     Internet: short history of site, contact information, education page, descriptions of holdings, site news, and links to historical and museum Web sites <http://www.historiccherryhill.org> (Jan. 20, 2003).

The word "story" proliferates throughout the interpretive and promotional materials issued by Historic Cherry Hill, a historic-house museum in Albany, New York. "Your tour of Cherry Hill will tell the poignant story of Catherine Bogart Putman Rankin," promises the institution's Web site. "Each room, each object will evoke a poignant story as you tour the Rankin home." The tour itself begins engagingly with the question, "Do you like a story?" What you are about to experience, the guide predicts, is not just another house tour, but a story filled with "drama, crisis, [and] romance." Here the orientation ends, a door opens, and visitors enter the house and world of the Rankins of Cherry Hill. 1

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